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 #112729  by Mike Roque
 
The Port Authority Board of Commissioners today approved the selection of a major rail car firm to design and build a new fleet of PATH cars as part of an $809 million program that is one of the largest single investments ever made by the bistate agency.

The Board, acting as the PATH Board of Directors, authorized the award of a $499 million contract to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. to design and build 340 new PATH rail cars. The new cars will replace the system’s fleet, which averages 33 years of age and is the oldest in the nation. The cars will be assembled at the company’s Yonkers, N.Y., plant.

The award is part of an $809 million PATH modernization program that also includes car maintenance equipment, renovations to PATH’s Harrison Consolidated Maintenance Facility, and preliminary work on a new signal system. It is the largest single investment in the rapid transit system since the Port Authority acquired the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad in 1962.

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http://www.panynj.gov/AboutthePortAutho ... php?id=660