scratchyX1 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:11 am
photobug56 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 12:34 am
Wasn't PANYNJ created just to build this tunnel?
Yes, They were created to build the cross harbor tunnel.
And a great job they have.. of ... er ...
airtrain? maybe?
There is no language in the interstate compact and state legislation that requires or even suggests this specific purpose. Construction of a rail tunnel is clearly within the Port Authorities powers, but its establishment was far broader than that single potential project. Relevant language of the 1921 Compact legislation reads as follows: " Chapter 154 of the laws of 1921
Port of New York authority
Section 1. William R. Willcox, Eugenius H. Outerbridge and Murray
Hulbert, or any two of them, commissioners heretofore appointed under
chapter four hundred and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and
seventeen of the state of New York, together with the attorney-general
of the state of New York, are hereby authorized as commissioners upon
the part of the state of New York to enter into, with the state of New
Jersey, by and through the commissioners appointed or who may be
appointed under or by virtue of a law of the legislature of the state of
New Jersey, an agreement or compact in the form following, that is to
say:
Whereas, In the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four the states of
New York and New Jersey did enter into an agreement fixing and
determining the rights and obligations of the two states in and about
the waters between the two states, especially in and about the bay of
New York and the Hudson river; and
Whereas, Since that time the commerce of the port of New York has
greatly developed and increased and the territory in and around the port
has become commercially one center or district; and
Whereas, It is confidently believed that a better co-ordination of the
terminal, transportation and other facilities of commerce in, about and
through the port of New York, will result in great economies, benefiting
the nation, as well as the states of New York and New Jersey; and
Whereas, The future development of such terminal, transportation and
other facilities of commerce will require the expenditure of large sums
of money and the cordial co-operation of the states of New York and New
Jersey in the encouragement of the investment of capital, and in the
formulation and execution of the necessary physical plans; and
Whereas, Such result can best be accomplished through the co-operation
of the two states by and through a joint or common agency. Whereas, It is confidently believed that a better co-ordination of the
terminal, transportation and other facilities of commerce in, about and
through the port of New York, will result in great economies, benefiting
the nation, as well as the states of New York and New Jersey; and
Whereas, The future development of such terminal, transportation and
other facilities of commerce will require the expenditure of large sums
of money and the cordial co-operation of the states of New York and New
Jersey in the encouragement of the investment of capital, and in the
formulation and execution of the necessary physical plans;
ARTICLE XXII.
Definitions. The following words as herein used shall have the
following meaning: "Transportation facility" shall include railroads,
steam or electric, motor truck or other street or highway vehicles,
tunnels, bridges, boats, ferries, car-floats, lighters, tugs, floating
elevators, barges, scows or harbor craft of any kind, air craft suitable
for harbor service, and every kind of transportation facility now in use
or hereafter designed for use for the transportation or carriage of
persons or property. "Terminal facility" shall include wharves, piers,
slips, ferries, docks, dry docks, bulkheads, dock-walls, basins,
car-floats, float-bridges, grain or other storage elevators, warehouses,
cold storage, tracks, yards, sheds, switches, connections, overhead
appliances, and every kind of terminal or storage facility now in use or
hereafter designed for use for the handling, storage, loading or
unloading of freight at steamship, railroad or freight terminals.
"Railroads" shall include railways, extensions thereof, tunnels,
subways, bridges, elevated structures, tracks, poles, wires, conduits,
power houses, substations, lines for the transmission of power,
car-barns, shops, yards, sidings, turn-outs, switches, stations and
approaches thereto, cars and motive equipment. "Facility" shall include
all works, buildings, structures, appliances and appurtenances necessary
and convenient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance and
operation of such facility or facilities or any one or more of them."
