For the final installment of our four-part series, The PATH Back, we look at the fast, improvised work that delivered train service, and hope, back to Lower Manhattan after PATH's shutdown on 9/11 and the service restoration. What should have taken a decade or more took less than two years. Exchange Place reopened 21 months after it was largely destroyed by flooding. The World Trade Center station returned a month ahead of its own already-compressed schedule. PATH's return to its previously devastated stations was “nothing short of a miracle” in the eyes of those who saw it through.
Steve Burns is a Reporter at WCBS 880/1010 WINS. He specializes in finance, personal finance, and business economics, covering topics such as credit health, debt management, retirement planning, and consumer behavior, while also exploring the intersections of culture and society with the economy. Steve’s work has been featured in WVXU, CBS Radio, VG247, Indiana Public Media / WTIU / WFIU, CorvetteBlogger, Maritime Reporter and Engineering News, Idaho Business Review, The A.V. Club, New Trader University, and the American Journal of Transportation.