The American Automobile Association is suing the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PATH) for raising bridge tolls. AAA doesn’t oppose tolls, but it does oppose tolls whose revenues won’t be spent on activities that have a “functional relationship to transportation.” Since these bridge tolls will be used to subsidize the new World It is the only medicine available in market for best online cialis same use. So many no rx levitra http://respitecaresa.org/get-fit-and-support-the-children-of-respite-care/ erectile dysfunction treatments take this challenge freely and provide completely recovered sexual health to the person. They manufacture generic equivalents of a best buy on cialis number of cardiovascular diseases. The male will still get orgasm, but his penile organ will have difficulty remaining hard for romantic order viagra from canada intimacy. Trade Center, AAA argues they are illegal under federal law.
The Antiplanner cheers AAA’s suit, but wonders why the association didn’t sue PATH years ago when the original World Trade Center was also being subsidized by bridge tolls. Maybe the current political environment has emboldened AAA to be a little stronger in representing its members’ interests.
They’re suing the PA of NY & NJ, not PATH.
The Port Authority is not PATH it’s PANYNJ. PATH is the Port Authority Trans-Hudson, which is the rapid transit railroad linking Manhattan, New York City with Newark, Harrison, Hoboken and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey. Composed of the various rail schemes that took place come turn of the century. By the 1950’s the Hudson rail tunnel companies were under bankruptcy court protection for years, a source of embarrassment. For decades, New Jersey politicians asked the Port Authority to operate the vital transit link, but Port Authority officials were reluctant to assume the money-losing operation. New York politicians did not want extra Port Authority money spent in New Jersey. When the World Trade Center first came into fruition, Port Authority agreed to purchase and maintain the Tubes in return for the rights to build the World Trade Center on the land occupied by H&M’s Hudson Terminal. In 1962, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company ceased operation and PATH took over. While the two state governors debated as to why only NYC would get nearly 400 million dollars in new construction. New York agreed to take over the rail lines and in exchange they decided to move the World Trade Center project to the Hudson Terminal building site on the west side of Lower Manhattan, a more convenient location for New Jersey commuters arriving via PATH (and making the new towers more visible so New Jerseyans could see it). The previous WTC was no different than the currently new one due to be completed, heavily subsidized office space going on the open market, competing with the private sector when there was already a huge plethora of vacant office space at the time.
Can someone explain why a Port Authority pays to build huge office buildings in a city? I have never understood that. I thought a port authority was supposed to do things connected with the docks or at least about transportation.
I think the Port Authority holds it’s jurisdiction over all transportation projects within a 25 mile radius of the Statue of Liberty, they collect tolls on many things. Port authority (less commonly a port district) are governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure. PANYNJ operates the Hudson River crossings, including the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and George Washington Bridge. Also Three crossings that connect New Jersey with Staten Island. The Port Authority Bus Terminal and the PATH rail system are also run by the Port Authority, as are LaGuardia, JFK, Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport and Stewart International Airport. However the Port Authority also participates in joint development ventures around the region in regards to real estate. I’m not sure as to why, probably to collect tolling and other types of revenues to expand their government business to oversee development as they see fit.
Can someone explain why a Port Authority pays to build huge office buildings in a city?
There are readers here much more informed about the minutiae of the Port Authority, but I would suspect the reasons are the same as for any branch of government: bring in money and consolidate power. The money is the more important I should think.
LazyReader wrote:
I think the Port Authority holds it’s jurisdiction over all transportation projects within a 25 mile radius of the Statue of Liberty, they collect tolls on many things.
Crossings of the Hudson River (and Arthur Kill) within 25 miles of Miss Liberty are under Port Authority jurisdiction. The Verrazano Narrows Bridge (I-278) between Staten Island, N.Y. and Brooklyn, N.Y. is not a Port Authority crossing, even though it’s less than 25 miles distant from the Statue of Liberty.
The N.Y. State Thruway Authority’s Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River (I-87/I-287) is located just beyond the 25 mile limit.
Port authority (less commonly a port district) are governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure. PANYNJ operates the Hudson River crossings, including the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and George Washington Bridge. Also Three crossings that connect New Jersey with Staten Island. The Port Authority Bus Terminal and the PATH rail system are also run by the Port Authority, as are LaGuardia, JFK, Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport and Stewart International Airport.
The one asset above that runs at a deficit is the PATH rail system.
However the Port Authority also participates in joint development ventures around the region in regards to real estate. I’m not sure as to why, probably to collect tolling and other types of revenues to expand their government business to oversee development as they see fit.
It’s fine for the Port Authority to own land that it needs to operate its seaports, airports and road crossings. But like some others who commented above, I have never understood why it needed to be in the business of commercial property development.