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Christopher Street (8
photos) Pavonia-Newport (6 photos) Exchange Place (7 photos) Harrison (23 photos) |
 World Trade Center Re-opening Day (23-11-03) (18 photos) |
The Port Autority
Trans-Hudson (PATH) is New
Yorks City's 2nd or 4th subway system, running between New York
City and New Jersey, PATH is a small system: 13 stations (6 in
New York City, 7 in New Jersey). It is compleatly independent
from the MTA and the subway, now being operated by the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey. The only small intagration
will be that all PATH stations will accept pay-per-ride
MetroCards, currently World Trade Center is the only station. There you insert the MetroCard
like a QuickCard (they are almost the same size) and the machine
deducts $1.50 only. There are no track connections with subway,
even though it is a wall away from the F on 6th Avenue. The tunnel diamiter is
different, but trains could run on the IRT if there was a
connection (A very early map shows a
perposed connection with the Lexington Avenue Line along 9th
Street).
The prediceser of PATH the Hudson & Manhattan Rail
Road was built an ran compleatly privately. The head
finacer and president during building and early running was
William Gibbs McAdoo. The system was built between 1908 and 1912,
connecting New York City with railroads across the country. Until
the Seccauas Transfer was opened in December
2003 Passangers from the northern New Jersey Transit lines
transfered to PATH or ferries at Hoboken. Passangers on the
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail for New York City also transfer to PATH
or farries at three stations.
9/11's effects on transportation were the most major for PATH.
The World
Trade Center station was
compleatly distroyed and the Hudson River tubes flooded for 40
days. Since at Exchange Place there was no swich to turn trains
around with. PATH was without two stations until June 2003
(Service then operated from 33rd Street to Hoboken, 33rd
Street to Newark, or Hoboken to Journal Square) then Exchange Place was reopend with a swich being built. World Trade Center,
(I was there opening day)
reopened on Sunday, November 23, 2003.
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THE FARE The basic
fare is $1.50. Every station has at least one
turnstile with a machine that excepts dallor bills. |
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Rolling Stock
PATH currently uses old short cars (i have no real info). Each car has two doors and logitudinal seating only. All trains have front windows and half cabs only.
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| (rollingp1) Looking down a PATH car, notice that both sides have doors open. This is because the train is stopped at 33 Street and the conductor has not closed the exit platform doors yet. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 23 November, 2003 | (rollingp2) To my delight the driver steps outside for a moment, looking into a cap, the controls are similar to an old (R-38ish) subway car. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 23 November, 2003 |
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