NYC-WTC_000230598

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document THE NEW YORK POST, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2001 | * BATTERY PARK GIY | pecass to Battory Pairk Clty is «rpatricted and only rosidarite |" identification are 40 on the West Side near | Houston Sredt S00, betteryparkelty.org for ntore information. - out : oa and Phor ? * "will run. to; Pearl’ and ‘W tnd Jersey City to W. Seth St heros rr es - 4 By] TOM TOPOUSIS Warkers are set to retum to ‘ the Financial District today, but the only way in will be by sub- + way or on foot. ,. The. Transit . Authoriry ‘worked through the weekend to , ‘restore most subway service through ‘the district, with the exception of some station clos-— inga nearest to the Warld Trade Center site, But ‘TA officials said last “might that service on the 1/9 indefinitely. N and\R: service: berween ‘Canal and -Whitehall . Streets will be out for weeks. All passenger cars and -non- essential vehicles are ~ banned south of Canal Street. The Hol. land Tunuel and the’ Brooklyn- * Battery Tunnel are closed. Limited ‘express-bus service er streets in fewer Manhattan. +> '’+/: - Tha, -Brooklyn Bridge will be. open; only: for, pedestrians — ~ * making «this perhaps the 118- ‘year-old span’s longest closing _ to vehicular traffic since the in- vention of the automobile. * Brooklyn: will get new ferry 4. .service that, the city will run * free of charge from the Brook- ‘Typ Army Terminal in Bay. Ridge to the «Whitehall: Ferry . Terminal in lower Manhattan. Ferries will leavé Brooklyn at. First Avenue and 58th Street on Mass transit on ‘track for influx line south of Canal Street is lost... turn ‘from Manhatian on the hour from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Staten Island Ferries are also slated to resume normal week- + day service this morning at into South Ferry at the tip o. PATH-tain service from New Jersey will run only ec north tube to 23rd yee PATH station at the World Trade Center: was destroyed and its tunnels flooded. : New-York "Waterway ferries will’ ‘boost service for commut- ers-from Néw. Jersey, especially -at. the’ Hoboken station where thousands of commuter-rail rid- ers used to switch to PATH , trains to the trade center.-. . <. Pat Smith, a spokesman for ‘New York Waterway, . snid the ‘ferry’ system is prepared to carry 250,000 riders today, com- pared with i its 32,500 dally aver- age. . The ferries will. be one of the only transit links :across « *Hudson’-to lower ‘Manhattan, with service running’to Pier 1 ‘at Wall Street. Boats will also be. * going.to 36th Street on the Hud-" MI. All ferry service to the World Financial Center has been, canceled... . ‘The Long “Island=Rail « Road, Metro- North‘ and:NJ° Transit} commuter rail lines ‘@re ex- pected, to Tesume' normal sery- “the hour from 6 to 9 a.m. for the «. icé to Penn Station and Grand (30: tainute . rides They will re- “Us airlines braced: for, a’ "worsening crisis ahead of ur-- gent meetings with the Bush ad- ministration where they will - seek a federal bailout for an in- dustry: hobbled by Jast week's terror attacks. Airline executives were call- ing for government assistance‘ as.the industry struggles with‘ - the aftermath of a national air transportation shutdown. Thou- sands of airline industry ‘jobs ~ are at risk"as carriers grapple ‘with the loss -of public confi- « dence that has slashed traffic, . “If you want to-have an air. , transportation ‘system in this” country that can. get the<eco*, nomic. engine running agsin, then you a are going !o have, to do 7 "36methi: lines Chief Executive Gordon NYC-WTC_000230599 CITY _21MC100_ 011829458 “ Gentral Terminal. | Airlines’ urgent plea “Bethune sald on ABC ieievision " yesterday, » Continental ‘Airlines said on ‘Saturday it would lay. off 12,000 , ’ Staffers and warned it could file for bankruptcy. Delta Air Lines, the’ nation’s third largest, yesterday joined . other: carriers” :in “reducing “scheduled, service: and sald it: . would consider’ Job cuts if the’ - governme rt does" por provide deral aid to’ salvage carriers - _ from the deepening crisis. , *. “Were this to:go on for any exténded time without aid from the goveriment, then we would - have ‘to consider. employee’ re- ductions," Leo Mullin, Delta Continental ” Air” chief éxvecilive, told ABC. *"""" Reuters