New York Times article on Authority clean air projects, undated

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THE NEW YORK TIMES METRO SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 2002 L+ B3

■■ CITY at ! Talk of Ground Zero Tribute, as West Street Reopens i i if’I ” ■fl By DIANE CARDWELL i cars using E-ZPass and carrying a is their own room where they can sit twin beams of light forming a minimum of three people. The rule and reflect and not be disturbed by also applies to buses and emergency anybody else,” Mr. Bloomberg said. f V. t- . J , nocturnal memorial to World Trade center victims will go dark In mld- vehicles during those hours. That “It has always been contentious as to April as planned, but may be Incor- porated into a permanent memorial. Sl...lr.o™nBd7/ ' lane will run from the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge across the Gowanus who really could get on to the plat-; S form. This will solve that problem.” i a Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday. 5* i*When we first did it, a lot of the Wfsr < snuT j Expressway to the tunnel, Mr. Bloomberg said. Also yesrerday, toe Port Authority Some of those family members,! S present at the news conference an- g nouncing toe roadway openings, said. E i ii ifathilies of those we lost were of New York and New Jersey an- they were pleased about the new R Bi?' ^(gainst It, because they felt it would i«a nounced that the Holland Tunnel is to center, as well as a decision an- g beaome the permanent memorial reopen three Manhattan-bound lanes nounced by Gov. George E. Pataki i 1 ®nd they wanted .something they for cash-paying drivers at 7 a.m. that city officials had agreed that a ! thought was more fitting,” Mr. •today. The three center lanes will be tent where ground zero workers can -Bloomberg said on his weekly call-in for E-ZPass users, while three lanes eat and shower would remain open ' I■ (radio program, which took no calls on toe far left will remain closed to for at least the next few weeks, and t-.. yesterday. allow the demolition of the Jersey perhaps for a month, if necessary. ' think we should consider lights City warehouse that caught fire last That decision, Mr. Pataki said, i Opart of toe permanent memorial,” '* ' c’ r-*-^** ' f Hl ’ 1 week. would ensure “that those .-escue . IM f added, although he cautioned As part of toe alterations near .gainst the expense. ground zero, the Lower Manhattan to tofS ** ba,The temporary memorial. Tribute o- , , ™” Deveiopment Co’rpo'ratTon is settSg place where they can sit and eat and ’ yesterday evening. A stretch of the road had been closed since Sept 111 flight, costs hundreds of thousands 'Sjx lanes of West Street near up a new location, a room next to its bathe and just go about the activities dollars a month to matotata, Mr. Iground zero reopened last night offices on the 20th floor of 1 Liberty they have to when they’re not down two women who lost relatives in the wanted his reassurance to the p es­

n .Bloomberg said, adding that the Plaza, where families can view toe at ground zero Itself.” attack to promise to keep the tent up ent if the news media and witness­ I. -agreemem with toe residents of Bat- tery Park City limits its glow to ,been closed to traffic since Sept 11 In addition, the Brooklyn-Battery P® where their loved ones perished. ® Officials said earlier this week until toe end of the recovery opera- es tt ensure that officials would n t «“■ change their decision. I about a month. Tunnel the last major erasing still ®"‘“'’en, will be open weekdays down so that the Battery Park City Mr. Bloomberg sought to reassure She said she and other relatives of - jSeveral developments Involving shut down after the terror attaek ®® ® P'®* “* Authority could use the area as a them by repeating, “I hear you,” and victims and workers could take World Trade Center site were rennened jact ntohr and will Ka holidays from 8 a.m. to 6 parking lot for businesses that are reminding them that Mr. Pataki had great comfort in knowing that the ^pounced yesterday, from reopened rS P ®” April 8. reopening, but family groups were said the tent would stay up as long as workers had a place to go for coffee tpadways to a new family viewing ■Ject to traffic restrictions similar to officials said that the room was adamant that it remain open. necessary, but he stopped short of and emotional support Speaking of >rpa to the fate of a tent nicknamed 'those governing other crosstags be- set up In response to toe families’ After the news conference, Mr. the full commitment they sought the residents of Battery Park City, (the Taj Mahal by ground zero work- 1ginning on Monday, officials said, requests for greater privacy and be- Bloomberg, who had said that it Martha Butler, who lost her hus­ she said, “They want their park,

t O'Last night, officials reopened six lanes of West Street between Cham- jMw and Albany Streets, that had Cars carrying fewer than two occu- ipants into Manhattan will not be per- mitted between 6 am. and 10 a.m., and there Is a new lane open only to cause the view of the site has been obstructed as recovery work has moved. underground.. . “What the families will have here would be “more than appropriate” to band, Tora, a firefighter from Squad their area back, but I want my hus­ have a ceremony honoring die work- 1 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, said that band back, and that’s what I need to ers when the recovery operation she thought the mayor understood bring some kind of comfort to my came to a close, was beseeched by her position, but suggested that she family.” Ui’ii

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