The Port Authority of New Bakersville is a government organization owned by the City of New Bakersville. It oversees a majority of public infrastructure in the Metropolitan Area, including bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports.

History

Old Town Tunnel
Old Town Tunnel
Carries	8 lanes of roadway
Locale	Old Town
Maintained By	Port Authority of New Bakersville
History
Designer	Fred Rail
Builder	Fred Rail
Construction Start	1890
Construction End	1892
Opened	Janurary 6, 1893

Kings Highway Bridge
Kings Highway Bridge
Carries	6 lanes of roadway, ; 4 tracks,; and bicycles
Crosses	New Bakersville Canal
Locale	Old Town - Coney Island
Maintained By	Port Authority of New Bakersville
Characteristics
Design	Suspension bridge
History
Designer	Port Authority of New Bakersville
Builder	Fred Brand
Construction Start	1906
Construction End	1910
Opened	October 7, 1910
Toll	Express lane only

Port Authority of New Bakersville (PANB)
	Current logo
Formation	4, 30, 1904
Type	Port district
Headquarters	2 Rockefeller Center, Downtown, New Bakersville
Region Served	New Bakersville City, Graltes, and Jaikrunda
Official Language	English
Executive Director	User:FredTheTimeLord

The Port Authority was founded in 1904 to manage and operate the New Bakersville Canal, which was falling into disrepair after the Union Freight Terminal began operation in 1885. It managed and repaired any damage, as well as provided ferry access to the inner city.

Pre-World War II Era

Before the second World War, the Port Authority mostly managed the canals and harbors of New Bakersville.

Facilities

The Port Authority of New Bakersville manages and maintains infrastructure critical to New Bakersville’s trade and transportation network—the New Bakersville seaport, the PATH rail transit system, several tunnels and bridges, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Union Bus Station.

Seaports

The Port Authority manages multiple major seaports in both Monterey Lake and Vernal Lake. As the two oceans aren't directly connected, the Port Authority and Fred Rail operate a service known as Express Rail to quickly transfer freight contents between the Bay Ridge Seaport and Pelham Bay Seaport.

Airports

The Authority plans to operate New Bakersville City Airfield under a lease with the City of New Bakersville for operating purposes.

Bridges and Tunnels

Other facilities managed by the Port Authority include the Kings Highway Bridge, the Old Town Tunnel, and the Midtown Tunnel.

Kings Highway Bridge

The Kings Highway Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the the New Bakersville Canal as well as north Coney Island, connecting Old Town to Coney Island carrying and four railroad tracks.

History

The Bridge officially opened to traffic on October 7th, 1910. It was the first suspension bridge to have been built in New Bakersville. Originally, the bridge would've spanned a large widening and extension of the New Bakersville Canal, which would've allowed more boat traffic to travel into the Midtown Area. Plans for this project, and bridge connecting Old Town to Bowery and Coney Island had existed since the 1860s. In 1904 following the Port Authority's formation, projects for a bridge and canal widening were proposed, and construction began on the bridge the same year. However, due to budget cuts, a lack of interest, and protests from shop owners in Bowery, the canal was never widened.

The bridge was constructed in an unusual method. A temporary bridge was built where the permanent bridge would be. Then, using large-scale, cheap scafolding, the temporary bridge was slowly be converted into the permanent bridge. This approach was chosen as the New Bakersville Canal wasn't a large enough obstacle to warrant more expensive methods of bridge construction. Construction on the bridge meant that a majority of transit service in the area beneath the bridge had to be suspended or reduced in service, affecting a major rail line and roads. This led the Port Authority to PATH (Port Authority Trans-Harbor), which could directly bypass the construction site beneath the bridge and travel between Coney Island and Midtown via the bridge.

Description

The bridge has four vehicle lanes on the upper level, split between two roadways carrying opposite directions of traffic. The lower level has two reversible vehicle lanes (for express service), four railroad tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The bridge carries NBC-2, immediately off the highway junction in Old Town with the A230.

The North side of the bridge connects to a highway junction with the A230. Fourth Street runs immediately adjacent to the northern anchorage, with the New Bakersville Canal Main Line following to the south.

To the South of the canal, the bridge crosses over Bowery Street, the Broker Bridge, and First Street, respectively. The southern anchorage provides walking access to Canal Park and Revere Beach.

Railroad Tracks

Four railroad tracks are located on the lower deck of the bridge, two on each side of the roadway. The two tracks on the west side are to be used for a future railway line. The tracks on the east side are to be for the PATH Coney Island Shuttle..

Old Town Tunnel

The Old Town Tunnel is a highway tunnel on the beneath Old Town.

History

The Old Town Tunnel was originally a railroad tunnel between Old Town Junction and Union Freight Terminal. It allowed freight trains to travel beneath several housing zones without causing too much of a disruption. When the Union Freight Terminal was torn down in 1967, the tunnel became useless. Until the construction of the A230 in 1996, much of the former rail yard was used to store decommissioned locomotives.

Description

The tunnel consists mostly of arched brick paved in a straight line. Some areas are designed with simple steel beams, due to them previously being open trenches. A large section was cut open in 2000 for an interchange to NBC-2 from A230. A majority of the tunnel is separated into individual tunnels, housing two lanes within each segment. The arched portion crosses adjacently to Chandler Street, Lawrence Street, and Appleton Street.

The eastern end of the tunnel was built using a cut and cover method to support the structures on Benjamin Street. A portion of exit 7 is built into the tunnel.

The outer lanes provide local access to the city, well the four inner lanes bypass exits 6 and 7.

Midtown Tunnel

Midtown

Carries	8 lanes of roadway
Locale	Midtown
Maintained By	Port Authority of New Bakersville
History
Construction Start	1995
Construction End	1996
Opened	July 6, 1996

The Midtown Tunnel is a highway tunnel cut beneath Midtown of New Bakersville. It provides service to

History

The tunnel was built from a previously excavated tunnel for an abandoned City Hall Railroad Station beneath Market Place. The tunnel also had to cut through an abandoned subway tunnel as, between Fourth Street and Gallery Place stations on the Fourth Avenue and the Fifth Avenue subway lines.

Description

The tunnel is built using steel beams to suspend the tunnel ceiling. It ramps down to avoid a separate road tunnel on Fifth Avenue.

Train

PATH

Port Authority Trans-Harbor is a regional railroad company owned by the Port Authority but operated under Fred Rail. It serves as a commuter rail in the city.

Blue Line

The Blue Line, formerly known as the Union and Seaport Line serves New Bakersville between New Bakersville Union Station and World's Fair Station along the New Bakersville Canal. All stations are currently operational.

PATH Blue Line