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Published weekly for Port Authority and PATH employees January 16, 2014/Volume 13/Number 3 ‘Super’ Service Set Preparing for the Super Bowl he Port Authority is kicking off extra PATH service to help serve bout 80 participants Triders for Super Bowl XLVIII – from the Port “the first mass transit Super Bowl” – AAuthority and local, adding more frequent train service state, and federal agencies beginning the week before the attended a planning February 2 championship game. workshop last month at Volunteer customer service the PA Technical Center as representatives will join PATH staff part of the agency’s Super to help customers navigate their way Bowl XLVIII preparations. A through the system. Additional PATH rail d a
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purpose was to enhance r get to the many Super Bowl-related readiness by identifying and Participants included (from left) James Munday (standing), events in both states, including Media discussing key planning Ira Forman, Gerard McCarty, and Charles Agro (behind Mr. Day in Newark and “Super Bowl coordination functions related McCarty) of the PA Office of Emergency Management; Director Boulevard” activities on Broadway in to command, control, of Public Safety/Superintendent of Police Michael Fedorko; midtown Manhattan. Acting COO Stephanie Dawson; Lt. James Griglio; and Deputy communications, and traffic- PATH projects that as many as Chief Matthew Wilson. 300,000 passenger trips will be made diversion activities among on the system each weekday leading the various organizations involved in number of contingencies and identify up to the Super Bowl, a 20-percent support of the numerous Super Bowl- mitigation options. increase over regular weekday ridership. related activities.” “The interaction with our partners PATH Director/General Manager The workshop, which followed a in the region,” Mr. Dunne said, “will Stephen Kingsberry said, “PATH wants similar one for PA staff only, afforded pay dividends as final coordination to score its own touchdowns Super decision-makers a chance to assess a occurs in the coming weeks.” Bowl week by ensuring that regular riders and visiting fans are able to reach their Pratt Students Present destinations as safely and efficiently as possible. Although we have increased Airport Terminal of the Future our train service to accommodate the rchitecture students from extra ridership, we still encourage Pratt Institute presented everyone to leave extra time and sign up for PATHAlerts to help ease their travel.” Atheir Fall Design Studio Special limited-edition PATH work, showing their brilliant vision J for the airport terminal of the o SmartLink cards that commemorate h n
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Super Bowl XLVIII went on sale last e n i LaGuardia Airport’s west side s week at vending machines in most e infrastructure to Interim Aviation PATH stations, several Hudson News Seated (from left) are Miguel Baltierra, Thomas Bosco, locations, and online. Only 70,000 of Director Thomas Bosco and other Lysa Scully, and Michael Moran. Standing (from left) the cards, which make great souvenirs, Aviation senior staff at 225 PAS on are Professor Enrique Limon, five of his architecture are available for purchase. January 10. students, Kiran Merchant, and Li Pei Wang. Visit www.panynj.gov/press-room LaGuardia staff on hand included attending were Assistant Director Bill to read more. For PATH schedules, Deputy General Manager Lysa Scully , Radinson , Aviation Planning Manager information, and alerts, visit Physical Plant and Redevelopment Kiran Merchant , and Senior Airport www.panynj.gov/SuperBowlXLVIII or Manager Michael Moran , and Senior follow @PATHTrain on Twitter. Program Manager Li Pei Wang . Also Continued on page 2 PATH Promotes Two Executives Calendar ATH Director/General Manager Stephen Kingsberry this PAHS Three Kings Pweek announced the Celebration appointments of Mike Marino as The Port Authority Hispanic Society Deputy Director, and Stephen Bland invites all PA/PATH employees and friends as Assistant Director/General to its annual Three Kings Cultural Celebration on January 24, 6 to 10 p.m., at Superintendent. Iberia Peninsula Restaurant in Newark. See Mr. Marino joined the Port Authority Mike Marino Stephen Bland Employee Bulletins for details. in 2011 as Superintendent of the Way & Structures Division and rose to than 25 years with Amtrak and the PAHS Cereal Drive Assistant Director/General MTA, and he has also served as Vice The Port Authority Hispanic Society is Superintendent and, more recently, President, Rail Transit, Northeast running a drive to collect breakfast cereals Interim Deputy Director. He has Region, AECOM. for the Apostle House food pantry in Newark. The drive ends January 24. Visit extensive experience in the railroad Mr. Bland has more than 25 years’ Employee Bulletins on EmployeeNet for industry, where he managed all types experience in transit management and more details, or contact Charlotte Colon of railroad-related construction operations in both the private and Alvarez via email. projects, from those involving track public sectors. He will report to Mr. installation to shop and yard facilities. Marino and be directly responsible for Master’s Degree Program His previous experience includes more PATH’s day-to-day operations. Seton Hall University is offering PA employees a master’s degree in Human Resources Training & Development at half the normal tuition. The 24-month, 36-credit Airports Set Records program is offered exclusively in learning teams and is entirely online. The spring he Port Authority’s commercial passenger traffic at our airports, which semester begins January 25. For more airports set an all-time record is great news on a host of fronts, but information, contact Dr. Sean McGee at 973 761-9389 or Dr. Dom Varricchio at last year with an estimated T especially for job creation and our [email protected] . 111.6 million passengers, surpassing regional economy.” the previous mark set in 2007 by Deputy Executive Director LWMC Meeting more than 1.5 million. Deborah Gramiccioni said, “These The Last Wednesday of the Month Three other passenger records numbers illustrate the importance of Club of PA retirees will meet at noon fell last year: John F. Kennedy our continued investments to deliver on January 29 at In Napoli Restaurant in International Airport set new annual the improvements our passengers Fort Lee. Contact Tony Coppolecchia at [email protected] for more info. records for most passengers, with demand, including rebuilt runways approximately 50 million, and most and high-speed taxiways to alleviate Jazz in Jersey international passengers, with congestion and delays, and terminal Retiree and jazz guitarist Joe Frame will approximately 26 million, while improvements to ease travel.” perform at La Tavola Cucina Ristorante, LaGuardia Airport set a new The combined impact of aviation 700 Old Bridge Turnpike in South River, on record for most international operations, capital spending and January 18, from 7 to 10 p.m. Contact him passengers in a year, with tourism generated by the PA at [email protected] for more details. approximately 1.6 million. airports is approximately 450,000 Executive Director Pat Foye said, jobs and $63 billion in annual Discount Program “While the effects of the recession economic activity. To read more, linger for far too many people, we are visit www.panynj.gov/press-room . Looking for good deals on ski tickets? pleased at the continued growth in Visit the Employee Discount Program page on EmployeeNet.
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Engineer Miguel Baltierra . students participated in the 15-week access; and concession zones, among Mr. Merchant and Mr. Baltierra design studio, which generated other things. coordinated the class program and proposals for future terminal plans, The class will produce a final were guest critics throughout the sustainability and resilience; alternative document on the proposals for the semester. uses for existing buildings; hotel/ PA archives this spring. Seven teams comprising 14 conference centers; multimodal 2 PA News / January 16, 2014