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Originally Posted by CIA
If that fails, here’s another alternative: run a state-of-the art, high-speed PATH train through one of the Lincoln Tunnel’s three existing 21-foot wide tubes from the massive Secaucus junction rail and bus station in New Jersey, through Weehawken and right into the site of the current Port Authority terminal. A high-speed PATH line in a refurbished Lincoln Tunnel tube could move as many as 36,000 to 50,000 passengers an hour in each direction—far more commuters than 1,000 buses could in an hour—with no traffic jams.
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A typical NJ Transit bus holds 49 passengers. Using your own figures 1,000 buses per hour could move 49,000 people, which is at the high end of your PATH train replacement figures. Hardly seems worth it considering you've now also forced the Lincoln tunnel to a single lane should work be required in one of the tubes (currently if 1 tunnel is closed it's traffic is diverted to the other, so both directions maintain 2 lanes).
Also, what would you do for the years during which the tunnel would have to be closed for construction? Where would the trains come from and go to? How are you going to acquire the right-of-way to build all that? How expensive would it be to tunnel further under the west side?
It's an idea, just not a good one...