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   Message 1,550 of 3,014   
   Peter T. Daniels to Clark F Morris   
   Re: Port Authority Bus Terminal--how to    
   01 Oct 15 15:45:15   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:41:38 PM UTC-4, Clark F Morris wrote:   
   > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:14:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 9:08:35 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> >Which rail CANNOT DO. I don't know even how well served the area was in   
   days   
   > >> >of street rail -- it was thinly populated, so there couldn't have been   
   much   
   > >> >business for streetcar lines outside Newark and maybe JC. The Hudson   
   Tubes   
   > >> >connected those areas to Manhattan in 1908. (The Hoboken-WTC link is   
   very recent.)   
   > >>   
   > >> 1909 is very recent?  What is this, England?   
   > >>   
   > >> (The uptown tubes opened in 1908, the north river tunnels to Penn   
   > >> Station in 1910.)   
   > >   
   > >The Hoboken-WTC link is very recent.   
   >   
   > Since it is a continuation of the Hoboken - Hudson Terminal link that   
   > was in existence long before I started commuting in the 1960s, I am   
   > wondering how you come to the conclusion it is recent.  WTC replaced   
   > Hudson Terminal which was well designed with a poor one.  Hudson   
   > Terminal had platforms on each side of the track with one for exiting   
   > and the other for boarding.   
      
   Because at the centennial in 2008 and when it went out after Sandy they gave   
   some information about the history.   
      
   I was unable to find anything on that particular line in the wikiparticles   
   or the PATH history pages.   
      
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