Real estate group to argue for 7 train to Secaucus
Dana Rubinstein
Michael Bloomberg may have left office, but one of his favorite transit projects still has legs.
On Thursday, the Real Estate Board of New York, which represents the city’s biggest developers, will testify before Governor Andrew Cuomo’s M.T.A. “reinvention commission” in favor of extending the Number 7 subway line to Secaucus, New Jersey.
“It has been more than 100 years since we have built a rail connection under the Hudson River,” board president Steven Spinola will argue, according to a copy of his testimony provided to Capital. “Since then, the city’s population has almost doubled and the population of the counties west of the Hudson has tripled. More significantly, almost a third of the city’s workforce is comprised of suburban workers, with a growing share coming from New Jersey.”
The city anticipates demand for transit between New Jersey and New York to grow 38 percent by 2030, even as existing facilities are at or near capacity.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/real-estate/2014/07/8549108/real-estate-group-argue-7-train-secaucus
