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be built ed the ceremony along with senators Hillary Clinton and of the sfte.LMCK chairman John y/hitehead has said that d the The panel was to be headed by • Berry, who lost her husband,

•i’*’ ' ' detailed plans do not satisfy the David Berry, on Sept 11, and

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V * York; and Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. U.S. Transportation Secre- The Freedom Center was choitn IrolastyeartaOlcultutalspaceM 11 the center that was set aside by '' y' Daniel Liher.kl.nd, who designed aI " include Virginia Bauer, whose husband., David Bauec died on SepV.11; Bon Go^rich, father of - ipteter Ooodrtdi; Susan Magazine, _ master pian for the site. i ' whose husbanctJay Mag^ne/ Officials speak at the transit hub’s groundbreaking yesterday. CAP) taiy Norman Mineta was al­ L ■ Earfief this year, a group of family’ was k’died; Nikki Stern, who tost so in attendance represent­ /Il meml)€rs issued vigorous objef . 1 her husband James Potorti; and By Justin Rocket Silverman The four-year, $2.2 billion gional ferry services, ing the'Bush Administra­ i 0o«stothe nHtsem Robin Theurkauf whose husbarsd, amNewYork Staff Writer f would detract from the planned Thomas Theurkauf, was WlledfAP) 1 construction plan is the most Pataki was particularly op- tion. “People cleaning 'up architecturally innovative timistic yesterday that a pro- . from Hurricane Katrina in *5 Four days before the 4th transportation hub ever to posed high-speed rail link the Gulf Coast should be annwereary of 9/11, city of­ come to downtown Manhat­ tetween JFK airport and low­ able to find hope and inspi­ ficials broke ground yester­ tan. er Manhattan would become ration in New York’s exam­ day for a futuristic Worid The World Trade Center part of the new transit hub. ple,” he said. “Americans Trade Center transit hub In Transportation Hub will re­ Independent city planners are strong in the face of lower Manhattan. place the temporary PATH are hopeful about the transit tragedypthey don’t quit, they train station at Ground Zero hub’s potential benefits, but rebuild” “This is a first-hand that opened in November of say some issues have not After^esterday’s ceremo­ demonstration of what inspi­ 2003. been addressed. ny, crewbegan work on a re­ ration really looks like,” said The hub will serve an es­ "There will definitely be a taining wall for the new Mayor Michael Bloomberg timated 80,000 daily PATH lot of retail business inside transit hub. at a ceremony yesterday at train riders commuting to this station,” said Petra The unique design of the Ground Zero. “When we re­ and from New Jersey. Under­ Todorovich, a senior planner building Is the brainchild of build in a spirit of vitality, ground corridors will link at Regional Plan Association architect Santiago Calatrava, hope and freedom, we hon­ the station to 11 subway in Manhattan. who based its curves on the or the memory of those 'who lines via' the new Fulton “It would be useful to the flight of a dove out of a died on 9/11.” Street transit hub, and to re- public to have some infor- child’s hands. Santiago Calatrava’s design for the transit hub. (AP)