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   Message 558 of 3,261   
   Jishnu Mukerji to John Levine   
   Re: NWK EWR   
   11 Jun 14 10:59:26   
   
   From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   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.   
   >   
      
   It was specifically designed to be inadequate for PATH. Or so I am told   
   by folks who were part of the design team.   
      
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