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Originally Posted by ardecila
Seriously... maybe extending the 7 to Secaucus is needed after all, not as a replacement for Amtrak Gateway but as a replacement for rebuilding Port Authority.
The staging is easy, too - if you finish the subway line, then you can continue to use half of the current Port Authority while the other half remains in use.
At the end of it, you wind up with 10 tracks across the Hudson instead of the current 6, plus the XBL.
All of this together would cost about $20bn at New York prices, though.
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The 7 should go to Hoboken Terminal where just about NJT line feeds into. Most of the Bus lines in North & Central Jersey are in place of Rail networks that were supposed to be up and running but are not due to New York. Sending the 7 to Hoboken Terminal which is underused and restoring the Rail network in NJ is the best way to go. The line that runs between Hoboken and 42nd Street is overcapacity aswell... You could expand the Bus Terminal at Hoboken and feed some of the Buses from Western Jersey and PA into the Hub. Its only a few blocks from the Turnpike...