CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Work began on May 29, 2025, when a groundbreaking ceremony for a temporary terminal on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th streets was hosted."
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- May 29, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Construction Starts on the Port Authority Bus Terminal Replacement
A groundbreaking on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets began the temporary terminal that keeps 8,000 buses a day running while the 1950 building is replaced. The $10 billion scheme was planned to finish in 2032, with new ramps by 2028.
- "Work began on May 29, 2025, when a groundbreaking ceremony for a temporary terminal on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th streets was hosted"[1]
- The building being replaced is the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 625 Eighth Avenue, opened 15 December 1950 as the Mid-Manhattan Bus Terminal; it is "the busiest bus terminal in the world by volume of traffic, serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year", with 223 departure gates, 1,250 parking spaces and nine platform levels[1]
- The PANYNJ released plans in January 2021 to rebuild on the same site with expanded bus layover facilities, and hired Foster + Partners and Epstein Global as designers in August 2022[1]
- Revised plans of January 2024 call for 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) of parks, a glass atrium, a main entrance on 41st Street, two office buildings of at least 60 stories on 40th and 42nd Streets, permanent closure of part of 41st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, and a separate bus storage and staging building; "At the time, the new terminal was planned to cost $10 billion; new ramps to the terminal were to be completed by 2028, while the terminal itself was planned to be finished by 2032"[1]
- Approvals ran ahead of the groundbreaking: the New York City Planning Commission approved the plans in October 2024, federal approval followed that December, and in January 2025 the U.S. Department of Transportation disbursed a $1.89 billion grant[1]
- The replacement answers long-standing capacity problems: the terminal has reached peak-hour capacity, causing congestion and overflow onto local streets, and allows no layover parking, so buses park on local streets or deadhead through the Lincoln Tunnel; on-time performance fell from 92 percent in 2012 to 85 percent in the first quarter of 2014[1]
- Earlier fixes failed - a planned $800 million bus garage was scrapped in October 2011 over budget constraints, and air-rights tower deals with Vornado Realty Trust collapsed in November 2011[1]
- NJ Transit accounts for 70 percent of the terminal's traffic, and PABT "is the gateway for most bus and jitney traffic entering Manhattan with more than 190,000 passengers on 6,000 bus trips made through the Lincoln Tunnel and terminal daily"[1]
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- [1]90%en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_Bus_Terminalen.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts May 29, 2025 ✓· 100% of score
Happened as dated, per the source: "Work began on May 29, 2025, when a groundbreaking ceremony for a temporary terminal on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th streets was hosted."
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