Path Train service and ferry ride across Hudson river
January 26, 2020 By Abiodun Giwa
Path train service has not been running to the World Trade Center,WTC, on weekends due to repairs caused by Hurricane Sandy devastation. The service only runs to the WTC on public holiday weekends since the beginning of 2019.The reason that a notice at the WTC station on Friday that the station will open elicits joy from straphangers, who feel it is less stressful traveling into New York City from New Jersey through the WTC than traveling on a ferry across the Hudson river.
The burden of traveling through the ferry from the Exchange place where the path train through terminates its service on weekends and then make passengers go on the ferry across the Hudson river, is worrisome to many travelers. Walking the distance from the Exchange Place to the ferry station and staying in a long queue in the cold awaiting the ferry's arrival some say is a reminder of the journey of the children of Israel in Egypt out of bondage. And straphangers still have to stand on a long queue in the maddening cold weather, when returning from New York City to New Jersey on the way back from New York City to New Jersey, and walk the distance back to the Exchange place train station from the ferry station. The only solution to this malady is for anyone ready to cough out out $15.00 to drive through the Lincoln or Holland tunnel or any of the toll bridges into New York City and back to New Jersey. No option for those who don't have car and have to got to work.
The Path train's service scheduled plan to skip the WTC on weekends is planned to end in December 2020. Straphangers have been helpless through 2019 when the plan has been operated and only have relief on holiday weekends - the only period the station is open on weekends. Unlike this January of 2020 that the WTC station has miraculously opened all weekends.
The opening of the WTC station on almost all weekends reliably ordered by the Path train management occasioned the busy yuletide period and has spanned all weekends of January 2020. It was supposed to end on Martin Luther King Jr. public holiday weekend, but the station was kept open for the holiday. And the reason that the unexpected opening this weekend that it has been scheduled to close has attracted praises.
However, as straphangers using the Path train service rejoice for the opening of the station, others using the Christopher Street station and the midtown service are on the receiving end of a cancellation of service, because the Christopher station is to close this weekend, according to information posted by Path at the WTC station.
The Christopher street station closure means there will be no service at all from the midtown to New Jersey and from New Jersey to the midtown.It also means anyone traveling to the midtown from New Jersey has to travel first to the WTC and then navigate the way to the midtown from the WTC.
The Christopher street station is the only route to and from the city for the Path service. The closure of Christopher street cannot be for a long period or must be for this weekend only, and must be expected to reopen for the busy Monday service. The station being a bridge on that route between New Jersey and New York City.
Being the last weekend in less burdensome January of 2020, straphangers from New Jersey are sure to enter February with another round of weekends of traveling through the ferry across the Hudson river to get into New York City. Unless the Path train management decides otherwise. It is a wait and see game.
The burden of traveling through the ferry from the Exchange place where the path train through terminates its service on weekends and then make passengers go on the ferry across the Hudson river, is worrisome to many travelers. Walking the distance from the Exchange Place to the ferry station and staying in a long queue in the cold awaiting the ferry's arrival some say is a reminder of the journey of the children of Israel in Egypt out of bondage. And straphangers still have to stand on a long queue in the maddening cold weather, when returning from New York City to New Jersey on the way back from New York City to New Jersey, and walk the distance back to the Exchange place train station from the ferry station. The only solution to this malady is for anyone ready to cough out out $15.00 to drive through the Lincoln or Holland tunnel or any of the toll bridges into New York City and back to New Jersey. No option for those who don't have car and have to got to work.
The Path train's service scheduled plan to skip the WTC on weekends is planned to end in December 2020. Straphangers have been helpless through 2019 when the plan has been operated and only have relief on holiday weekends - the only period the station is open on weekends. Unlike this January of 2020 that the WTC station has miraculously opened all weekends.
The opening of the WTC station on almost all weekends reliably ordered by the Path train management occasioned the busy yuletide period and has spanned all weekends of January 2020. It was supposed to end on Martin Luther King Jr. public holiday weekend, but the station was kept open for the holiday. And the reason that the unexpected opening this weekend that it has been scheduled to close has attracted praises.
However, as straphangers using the Path train service rejoice for the opening of the station, others using the Christopher Street station and the midtown service are on the receiving end of a cancellation of service, because the Christopher station is to close this weekend, according to information posted by Path at the WTC station.
The Christopher street station closure means there will be no service at all from the midtown to New Jersey and from New Jersey to the midtown.It also means anyone traveling to the midtown from New Jersey has to travel first to the WTC and then navigate the way to the midtown from the WTC.
The Christopher street station is the only route to and from the city for the Path service. The closure of Christopher street cannot be for a long period or must be for this weekend only, and must be expected to reopen for the busy Monday service. The station being a bridge on that route between New Jersey and New York City.
Being the last weekend in less burdensome January of 2020, straphangers from New Jersey are sure to enter February with another round of weekends of traveling through the ferry across the Hudson river to get into New York City. Unless the Path train management decides otherwise. It is a wait and see game.
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