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What to build at the World Trade Center site now—an illustrated proposal
A Way Out of the Pit?
- The build-it-and-they-will-come mindset underlying the current plans for the World Trade Center needs to be reversed. Here’s how.
Proposal by Stephen Davis
Excerpt: For millions of New York–area residents, the problem with downtown Manhattan is getting there. The devastated World Trade Center site represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve this. That’s the aim of the Six Mile Plan, an unauthorized proposal to revitalize downtown Manhattan by building a passenger railroad tunnel under the Hudson and East rivers. The tunnel would connect NJ Transit’s Hoboken terminal with Long Island Rail Road’s Flatbush Avenue terminal less than six miles away. Midway between the two existing terminals, at the World Trade Center site, a new train station would be constructed underground, mostly within the so-called bathtub. The Six Mile Plan would create one-seat train service to downtown Manhattan from all but a handful of the existing stations served by NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road, as well as points along Amtrak’s northeast corridor line such as Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. For regular long-distance commuters to downtown Manhattan (who currently use a combination of suburban trains and subways to get to work), the six-mile tunnel and the WTC train station would shave five to 15 minutes off each one-way trip. Over the course of a 30-year commuting career, this amounts to between 50 and 150 days’ less time spent traveling back and forth to work. Based on publicly disclosed figures for other New York regional infrastructure projects, the Six Mile Plan, including the bi-level underground train station illustrated here, could be built for $6–9 billion. A World Trade Center memorial complete with park and sunken tower footprints would fit on top of the proposed new infrastructure. . . . [Click for full text.]
About the writer: Stephen Davis, Proof’s founding editor, counts himself among the estimated 4 million Americans who commute to work on foot.
About the artists: John Wagner spent three years drawing two detailed panoramas of Manhattan’s skyline prior to the 9/11 attacks. Each cityscape includes more than 3,000 buildings and can be viewed at www.grandscapes.biz. Wagner lives in Colorado. Dale Glasgow lives with his wife and five daughters on a farm in Hartwood, Virginia. His art has appeared in National Geographic magazine, USA Today and many Fortune 500 companies’ publications.
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