More stairway follies...
http://www.amny.com/news/local/groun...m-topheadlines
Quote:
Schick and Emil are revisiting one LMDC decision, a proposal in February to demolish almost all of a staircase that took some Sept. 11 survivors from the trade center complex to the street. The 175-ton staircase sits at the site as the last aboveground remnant of the complex.
Schick said the LMDC is working "to devise what we believe is a more complete and appropriate mitigation plan and at the same time to identify a location where the staircase can be moved intact and stored."
He said the LMDC is looking at 10 possible sites nearby to move the staircase to and said its timing is guided by the needs of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site and is excavating the land around the staircase to prepare for building another office tower.
Port Authority officials have said in recent weeks they need to clear the space where the staircase sits as soon as possible. They said it will take up to eight weeks to prepare the staircase to move.
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The PA wants to clear and prepare the site as soon as possible, so they can meet the stated deadline and not have to pay Silverstein $300,000 a day for delays. Of course, the state can't get out of its own way...