Bay Head Local wrote:Wasn't there a board at the OLD WTC station above the escalators on the concourse,that displayed the different path service's (Journal Square,Hoboken,Newark),I also remeber it having something that said Express,does anyone else remember this board?The reason im asking this is because I was wondering did PATH ever have a plan to institue some type of express service?
Yes - that board could display the status of the various services (running / not running). It was tied into the illuminated maps that were above the platforms as well. The system that controlled these was rather primitive and failed frequently, so the signs were normally stuck at whatever settings they had last been configured to.
There was a simpler system at Pavonia/Newport which would illuminate arrows to point to which track a service was running on.
PATH experimented with a NWK/WTC express service, but with the short rush-hour headways and the large number of intermediate stations, the express would wind up sitting behind locals at the stations (except Journal Square, where it could use track 0).
Of course, if neither the Holland Tunnel nor the crash of 1929 had happened (or happened later), the H&M would have proceeded with expanding the whole system to 4 tracks and we would have had express and local services...