As much as the PATH train drives me nuts, it’s exciting that the station at the World Trade Center site will be reopening in just over three weeks — a temporary station, anyway. “Temporary” means three to six years, until the permanent station designed by Santiago Calatrava is completed. Who knows what my life will be like at that point, or where I’ll be living.
For now, at least, it will be nice to have an alternative once again to the crowded Sixth Avenue PATH line. Getting to lower Manhattan or to Brooklyn will be much easier (I haven’t been to Brooklyn in a few months, but it will be nice to have a shorter trip anyway), and if I’m going home from a bar late on a Friday or Saturday night, I won’t have to deal with hordes of drunken ex-frat boys going home to Hoboken if I don’t want to (though I’d have to hop on the subway and get down to lower Manhattan first). It will all make getting into Manhattan from the sixth borough a little more bearable.
And since I can’t figure out how to work the following links into the previous two paragraphs, I’ll just present them separately:
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Enjoy.
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