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Originally Posted by BrownTown
Agree. It makes no sense to send all the busses into the heart of Manhattan instead of collecting them all outside the city and sending people in by train. They should have the main bus terminal at Secaucus and a smaller terminal in the city for people coming from other directions.
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No, it really does. Many of those commuters would be forced to take a two or three seat ride to their final destination if the terminal is located in jersey. Now, a good portion walk to their end point or have a choice of multiple subway lines in the vicinity right after getting off the bus. I agree with the Beurocraps, this option should be off the table as it would lead to more unfavorable issues such as subway congestion in stations around there. Most will be transferring lines, so it would b a 3 seat ride.
I favor moving it to 9th and redeveloping the land near Times Square into amazing entertainment functions and towers.
Or better, just build more train lines to jersey suburbs and reduce the bus passengers. Make trains cheaper and more available and all that bus traffic will be decreasing. If this were Europe, there would be far more train lines serving jersey than there is today, including rapid transit to Manhattan, not just commuter rail. But of course, most New Yorkers thinks jersey is a dump and that NYC stands alone as an island, and not as the center of a vast metropolis. Thus, this is never likely to come to pass.