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Ward: Transportation Fixes are Job One

NEW YORK CITY-Fixing existing infrastructure and expanding bus service for the metro area are first on the list for the Port Authority’s long-term construction agenda.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on April 13, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-With population on the rise and interstate transportation steadily increasing across the five boroughs and throughout New Jersey’s northern and outer-ring suburbs, improving the region’s roads, bridges and bus services is “number one” on the agenda for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, says executive director Christopher O. Ward, who addressed the design, construction and real estate industry as the featured speaker at the New York Building Congress’ Wednesday morning forum in Midtown. Under the Port Authority’s 10-year $29 billion capital plan, Ward laid the foundation for what he calls “the third wave of construction” for the transportation agency. It includes improvements to the Lincoln Tunnel helix, the Goethals and Bayonne bridges and new suspender cables for the George Washington Bridge, which spans from Fort Lee, NJ to Northern Manhattan.

The problem, Ward said, is that “building has ended, but demand grows” in the region, noting that the last major accomplishment for the authority was the construction of the GWB almost 50 years ago. He added that many of New York and New Jersey’s highways and infrastructure have reached the 75- to 100-year mark, requiring repairs and at times, total reconstruction. “The demand within this region has clearly escalated well beyond what anyone could have imagined,” he said.

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