BRIEFS One World Trade Center Photo Contest Port Authority Board

Vol. 8, No. 3 August 2013

BRIEFS One World Trade Center Photo Contest

Solar-Powered Airplane Lands at JFK International Airport Solar Impulse completed its The world has eagerly watched as One pioneering voyage as the first World Trade Center evolved from a solar-powered aircraft to fly coast- visionary design to an engineering marvel to-coast with a late night landing at John F. Kennedy International to the tallest building in the Western Airport on Saturday, July 6, Hemisphere. Every day thousands of touching down on Runway 22L at people take photos of the iconic building. 11:09 p.m. It started its voyage We want you to show us your best shot! May 3 in San Francisco, with subsequent stops in Phoenix, Dallas, St. Louis and Washington, Submit your best photo of One WTC for a D.C. The clean-energy aircraft chance to visit the top of One World Trade contains thousands of silicon solar Center along with two friends. You've seen cells and is equipped with state-of- the-art batteries that store power, it from below. Now see it from the top. making it possible to fly thousands of miles without fossil fuel. Read For more information, visit our page at more. Facebook.com/WTCProgress.

Board Approves Contract for Airport Security Services World Trade Center As part of its continuing efforts to enhance security at its transportation facilities the Port Authority Board of Commissioners July 24 authorized a four-year contract for unarmed security #OneWTCBestPhotos guard services with Allied Barton Security Services. The agency's selection of Allied Barton to replace FJC Security follows a competitive procurement process and is part of an internal reorganization of security functions at Port Authority facilities Port Authority Board Approves $255 Million Project under the direction of Chief to Modernize Infrastructure at LaGuardia Airport Security Officer Joe Dunne. The agency will combine unarmed guard services for its three major aviation facilities under one contract to provide for more efficient operations. The $221 LaGuardia Airport's million contract with Allied Barton goes into effect on September 1. infrastructure will soon undergo an array of site, Decline in Vehicle Accidents building and utility Reported at PA Facilities The Port Authority of New York modernization projects after and New Jersey announced that a $255 million authorization motor vehicle crashes at its was approved July 24 by facilities decreased by 4 percent in the Port Authority's Board 2012 compared to 2011, according to the agency's recently released of Commissioners. The 2012 Traffic Crash Report. The Board's action is the latest motor vehicle crash rate reduction in the agency's continuing in 2012 reflects the Port program to upgrade the Authority's long-term commitment to reduce crashes at its tunnels, airport's infrastructure to bridges, airports, and marine meet current operational terminals. needs and future LaGuardia Airport passenger growth. Overnight Closures at the Outerbridge The Port Authority is in the midst The authorization for LaGuardia infrastructure improvements will of a pavement improvement generate 1,500 jobs, $112 million in wages and $364 million in project on the 85 year-old economic activity for the region, with more than 95 percent of the Port Outerbridge Crossing to improve traffic safety and driving Authority's expenditures reimbursable in federal passenger facility conditions. The project began July charges. 9 and will continue through October 2013. During that time, the bridge that links Perth Amboy, Read press release. N.J., to Staten Island will be closed during overnight hours, Monday to Thursday from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., and Friday from 11:59 p.m. to 7 a.m. Saturday. The bridge will be open on Saturday and Sunday nights and holiday Cruise Terminal Expansion Approved for Bayonne weekends. During the scheduled work, traffic will be diverted to the Goethals Bridge. After Labor Day, the bridge will close at 9 p.m. on The Port Authority Board of weeknights and open at 8 a.m. on Commissioners has Saturday mornings. approved plans by Royal

Long-Term Improvement Plan Caribbean Cruise Lines to Eyed for PA Bus Terminal build a new cruise terminal With the Port Authority Bus building at the Port Authority- Terminal at capacity during peak owned marine terminal periods and interstate bus travel continuing to grow, the Port facility in Bayonne - a major Rendering of Cape Liberty Cruise Authority Board of Commissioners public investment that will Terminal in Bayonne, N.J. has authorized a comprehensive spur continued growth in the study to explore ways to accommodate future growth in bus New Jersey cruise business. commuting heading to and from midtown Manhattan. Read more. As part of its expansion plans, Royal Caribbean also agreed to base its new Quantum of the Seas vessel - the largest cruise ship serving the Did you Know? You can keep up with the Port New York-New Jersey region - at Bayonne beginning in 2014. The new Authority and its services on vessel, which can accommodate up to 4,180 passengers, will sail to Twitter. @PANYNJ is the official the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida and Bermuda. Twitter feed for the Port Authority. You can also keep up with PATH via @PATHTrain and our airports The Port Authority acquired the Cape Liberty Cruise Terminal in June via @NY_NJairports. 2010 as part of its purchase of the 131-acre portion of the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne. Public Meetings The next meeting of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners Read more. will be Wednesday, Sept. 18. A schedule of public meetings is published on the Port Authority website. Minutes and actions from previous Board of Commissioners meetings are also available on the Taxiway Improvements Slated at Newark Liberty; site. Webcasts from the July 24 Board and committee meetings Project Designed to Reduce Flight Delays are also available online. Four new taxiways will help reduce airplane ground delays on Newark Liberty International Airport's longest runway as part of a $97.3 million rehabilitation slated to begin in early 2014, under a project authorized July 24 by the Port Authority's Board of Commissioners.

Runway 4L-22R, which measures 11,000 feet and handles about 200,000 flights annually, will be overhauled with asphalt repaving, repairs to concrete sections, and replacement of electrical and lighting systems. Crews last repaved the runway in 2003 and it is now nearing the end of its useful life.

Three of the new taxiways will allow multiple planes to stage for departure at the end of the runway, reducing takeoff delays, while the other new taxiway will allow arriving planes to exit the runway faster and get to the gates quicker.

Direct and indirect effects of this project means creation of 510 jobs, $34 million in wages and $152 million in regional economic activity over the 16-month work period from February 2014 to June 2015.