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PATH station very expensive

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PATH station very expensive
Posted by wanswheel on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:58 PM

Excerpt from NY Times article, How Cost of Train Station at World Trade Center Swelled to $4 Billion

At this point, Mayor Bloomberg assailed the hub as “too complicated to build” and demanded that the memorial be completed by Sept. 11, 2011.

His prodding hastened the project but made it more complicated. With the deck for the memorial in place, cranes could not lower materials and equipment to the hub mezzanine below, so the authority bought 10 flatcars for $3 million and used PATH as a freight railroad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/nyregion/the-4-billion-train-station-at-the-world-trade-center.html?_r=0

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