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The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City.It is the busiest bus terminal in the world by volume of traffic, [2] serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year.
The 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights.
The state of New Jersey wanted the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to take over the railroad, but the Port Authority had long viewed it as unprofitable. [26] The Port Authority ultimately took over the H&M as part of an agreement concerning the construction of the World Trade Center. [26]
The George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey was opened in 1931; only its current upper deck existed at the time. [14] As early as 1952, the PANYNJ (at the time the Port of New York Authority) had proposed widening a one-block stretch of 178th Street between Fort Washington Avenue and Broadway and creating a bus terminal there.
[82] [83] The Board of Transportation operated the New York City transit system until the creation of the New York City Transit Authority in 1953. [84] As part of a pilot program, the BOT installed three-dimensional advertisements at the Times Square station in late 1948.
The Lincoln Tunnel is also one of six tolled crossings in the New York area owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The tolls on each crossing are only collected in the New York-bound direction. As of 2016, both directions of the tunnel carry a combined average of 112,995 vehicular crossings every day.
Flag used by the Port Authority, a bicolor of Buff and Blue with the coat of arms of New Jersey and New York surmounted on gold fringe. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, (PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United ...
The Times Square–42nd Street and Port Authority Bus Terminal station complex is the busiest station of the New York City Subway and offers connections between twelve services, the most of all the system's transfer stations.