Why NJ Transit and not MTA? PATH already shares a fare payment system with Metrocard. It would be perfect time for integration with NYC subways. Nearly have the stations are in NYC.
There was a wacky citizen-initiated proposal a few years back when the WTC was being rebuilt to extend the 6 line to WTC and have it continue on the Newark-bound PATH tracks. PA officials didn't want to hear it, but MTA at least listened.
http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/09/the...never-was.html
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As planning for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan proceeded in the politically charged years following 9/11, a group of transit planners put forward an ingenious alternative: rather than terminate PATH trains at the World Trade Center, the Port Authority and MTA could work together to extend the tracks another 3,000 feet to the east and connect with the 6 train at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall.
The benefits of this connection, called PATH-Lex by its boosters, would have been enormous: a one-seat ride from Newark and Jersey City through lower Manhattan and up the East Side and then on to the Bronx. This could have essentially been the first direct cross-Hudson rail link with Grand Central Station, and would have involved minimal new tunneling. But the idea was dismissed before it could gather momentum.
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