More than 600 people from the NY-based, RPA-led Civic Alliance met last week to discuss the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.The group rated construction of a transportation hub and integration of ferries, subways, pedestrian ways and other transportation methods as its second highest priority.

Although participants felt that the creation andconstruction of a transportation hub was likely to happen, significant hurdles still exist.A station that allows easy transfers between subways and the PATH has yet to be designed.Furthermore, there are not yet permanent bus lanes or good bus-ferry-subway connections in much of the New York metropolitan area.

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