New York, New Jersey Still Split Over Bus Terminal Project
NEW YORK (AP) - A project to build a new bus terminal in Manhattan that has caused political strife on both sides of the Hudson River is showing no signs of reaching a resolution.
The vice chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an appointee of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was absent from Thursday’s board meeting, and a fellow board member said it was due to frustrations over the project.
A New Jersey lawmaker criticized some of her New York counterparts for suggesting the Port Authority’s chairman, a New Jersey appointee, should recuse himself from the project.
The six-decades-old terminal is decaying and the source of regular delays. A plan to build a new terminal one block west of the current location has been panned by New York lawmakers.
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Cross-posted in the New York Group.