From: otterpower@xhotmail.com   
      
   On 6/10/2014 8:38 AM, John Levine wrote:   
   >> Absolutely! PATH should have not only been extended to the airport but   
   >> when the new Terminals A, B, C were designed they should have made   
   >> accommodation for such future construction. But the PANYNJ Project   
   >> Managers were dead set against any rail connection to EWR, and specially   
   >> PATH. So they actually went out of their way to design the terminals to   
   >> make it very difficult to bring PATH to the terminals. (This is now for   
   >> a fact from someone who was part of the team that was given explicit   
   >> directions to design such that it is hard to add rail connection later).   
   >   
   > I was under the impression that the space in the terminals that the   
   > Airtrain uses was intended for PATH.  It looks to be about the right   
   > size.   
   >   
   The reconstruction of the inner curves of the two (now three) terminals   
   was both extensive and lengthy. Of course, with the Port Authority the   
   public is rarely informed of the costs and other considerations. The   
   imperious agency sets its immutable agenda and then sets about ways to   
   do more than recoup its expenses.   
      
      
      
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