{"id":662,"date":"2008-04-16T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-04-16T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T13:42:00","slug":"port-authority-cheats-path-riders-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Port Authority Cheats PATH Riders, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Port Authority has scaled back plans for the Calatrava designed World Trade Center PATH station, once promised as a grand entry point to lower Manhattan. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/16\/nyregion\/16terminal.html?ex=1365998400&#038;en=930728bd0c23e186&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">The Times<\/a> says the new plans will cut corners on the interior spaces, relying more on the temporary station&#8217;s internal spaces and tracks while using cheaper columns instead of creating broad, open spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the exterior aesthetics will remain, so claims the Port Authority. Maybe. Twice already, Calatrava&#8217;s design has been altered, once for security, and the second time for cost, not that much of that matters now anyway. What remains of the Calatrava station is a veneer, the awe inspiring interiors gutted by mismanagement. <\/p>\n<p>At least the Port Authority has money to pay for guys with machine guys to shakedown grandmothers smuggling firecrackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Port Authority has scaled back plans for the Calatrava designed World Trade Center PATH station, once promised as a grand entry point to lower Manhattan. The Times says the new plans will cut corners on the interior spaces, relying more on the temporary station&#8217;s internal spaces and tracks while using cheaper columns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"views":1410,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}