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For PATH, new cars will be pulling into the station by 2008http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubes/newcars-jj.html
P.A. clears $499M to replace oldest U.S. fleet and upgrade facilities
Friday, April 01, 2005 BY RUDY LARINI Star-Ledger Staff
The oldest passenger rail fleet in the United States is to be replaced under a half-billion-dollar contract the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized yesterday for the purchase of new cars for its PATH train system.
The $499 million expenditure for 340 new cars is the largest single investment the Port Authority has made in PATH since the agency acquired the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad in 1962.
"This is truly a historic day for the Port Authority and for the thousands of people in New York and New Jersey who rely on the region's mass transit system each day to get to their destinations," Port Authority Chairman Anthony R. Coscia said.
PATH carries 200,000 passengers a day between Hudson County and Manhattan and had a total ridership of 57.7 million last year.
The contract, awarded to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., to design and build the new cars is part of an $809 million PATH upgrade authorized by the Port Authority in September 2003. The program included signal improvements, car maintenance equipment and renovations at PATH's rail car maintenance facility in Harrison.
During the past three years, the Port Authority has also invested $566 million to rebuild a temporary World Trade Center PATH station and the Exchange Place station in Jersey City and renovate the rail tunnels underneath the Hudson River after 9/11.
The Port Authority expects to break ground this summer on a $2 billion transportation hub at the World Trade Center site.
"These initiatives continue to advance the goals of the 10-year strategic plan that the board approved last December by enhancing the mobility of people throughout the region," Coscia said.
The Port Authority expects to have the first of the new rail cars in service by late 2008 and the entire fleet replaced by 2011.