PANYNJ news release - Non-PATH sections redacted (Full release here):
PORT AUTHORITY READY FOR FIRST MAJOR SNOWSTORM OF 2016
Date: Jan 21, 2016
With a significant winter storm bringing heavy snow and blizzard-like conditions forecast to hit the New York-New Jersey region beginning Saturday morning and continuing until Sunday afternoon, the Port Authority today announced that it has taken significant measures to ensure safe, efficient operations at its airports, tunnels, bridges and PATH system throughout the winter event.
The National Weather Service currently forecasts the heaviest snow beginning late Saturday afternoon into early Sunday morning, when blizzard conditions may develop as the storm tracks up the East Coast into New England.
In advance of the first snowflakes, the Port Authority has made extensive preparations for personnel and equipment at all of its facilities. Operations personnel will work 12-hour shifts to ensure that facilities can be operated safely. The airports, bridges, tunnels and PATH also have snow desks where key personnel analyze weather reports and deploy staff and equipment. The Port Authority also will activate its Ernesto L. Butcher Emergency Operations Center this weekend, which is staffed with top agency officials who will monitor the storm and make decisions as conditions warrant.
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The Port Authority has the following winter weather equipment and supplies ready at its major transportation facilities:
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- Plow-equipped trains, liquid snow-melting agent trains and a "jet engine" plow to remove snow from PATH tracks, and snow blowers, plows and spreaders to clear station entrances, roads that serve PATH's 13 stations, and various support facilities.
For up-to-the-minute updates on Port Authority crossings, airports and the PATH system, travelers are encouraged to sign up for Port Authority alerts at http://www.paalerts.com/. Travelers may also call 511 or visit 511NY.org or 511NJ.org for further information on highway conditions.