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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: And now here she is, the extremely popular Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: I am, I'm getting emails. People love you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: I love you, too. Are you sure it's not just
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  Speaker 4: my mom, dad.
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  Speaker 5: And grandma?
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  Speaker 2: It could be. But thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that. The honk honk at the end, or
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  Speaker 4: the beeping, I guess. At the end of the music
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  Speaker 4: that runs into my segment, that's probably what you'll be
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  Speaker 4: hearing around Port Authority for at least the next decade
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  Speaker 4: or so. What?
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  Speaker 2: You know it.
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  Speaker 1: A decade?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, a decade as they try to build a new
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  Speaker 4: Port Authority terminal and drivers in the area. They are
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  Speaker 4: experiencing it. Now, the Port Authority bus terminals making progress
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  Speaker 4: toward this new and improved transit hub. Part of those
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  Speaker 4: improvements include changing traffic routes into the existing terminal, which
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  Speaker 4: happened a little over a week ago. So the exclusive
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  Speaker 4: bus lane through the Lincoln Tunnel was not supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be impacted. But Port Authority has been warning riders about
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  Speaker 4: possible delays once the buses hit Manhattan. OK, and it's
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  Speaker 4: a different story for drivers. who are encountering standstills at
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  Speaker 4: the height of the day, including this guy who was
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  Speaker 4: from New York who left the city.
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  Speaker 6: I live in Hattiesburg, so every time when I come
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  Speaker 6: over here, I'm like, oh man. As soon as I
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  Speaker 6: hit the Lincoln Tunnel, I'm like, here it goes. I'm like, damn.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, nah, take me back over there. The traffic,
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, dealing with this traffic over here, especially with
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  Speaker 6: the parking, it's crazy. It's crazy out here.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in Manhattan at a certain time of day,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be traffic.
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  Speaker 5: It's still the same, but, you know, it's New York.
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  Speaker 5: That's just the way the city is. It's never going
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  Speaker 5: to change, and we just got to learn to adapt
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  Speaker 5: to it. That's all it is. You know, it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be yellow cabs everywhere. It's going to be cars everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be Ubers everywhere. It's going to be
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  Speaker 5: people driving into the city, so just adapt to it.
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly the scene on every crossroad surrounding Port Authority,
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  Speaker 4: almost at any time of day.
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  Speaker 2: For real.
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  Speaker 4: All of this construction, though, is just prep work, which
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  Speaker 4: the agency says is moving forward to build a temporary
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  Speaker 4: terminal for riders so they can make way for a
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  Speaker 4: new permanent transit hub. Have you guys seen the renderings
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  Speaker 4: of this place? Yes, it's... kind of amazing in a
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  Speaker 4: way i'm i'm gonna we have to see we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do a side by side.
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  Speaker 1: This is what more than 10 years away yeah well
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  Speaker 1: you believe these politicians.
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  Speaker 4: Well there's rendering i don't do you think it's ai.
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  Speaker 2: Rendering probably everything's.
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  Speaker 4: Ai now now commuters though have a laundry list they'd
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  Speaker 4: like to see in a new terminal.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like the airports, you know how they update LaGuardia?
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  Speaker 5: They should update Port Authority. Wi-Fi, better seating, free phones
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  Speaker 5: to connect people when they get here, charger ports, more ads,
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  Speaker 5: more shops, more coffee shops, more hangouts. Not hangouts, but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, more seating areas.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's always great to make something more beautiful,
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  Speaker 7: but we want it to be as functional as possible.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't look terrible, you know, so I would say
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  Speaker 7: certainly fix the transit system.
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  Speaker 3: The bathroom, but Is it because it's dirty?
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  Speaker 1: It's closed?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: Now, before they started work on Port Authority, the bathrooms
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  Speaker 4: were a constant complaint from every time I went over
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  Speaker 4: there to interview people about it, what needs to be
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  Speaker 4: changed is the bathroom. So the bathrooms are still a problem.
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  Speaker 4: What the what the temporary terminal is going to have
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  Speaker 4: bathroom wise will we're yet to see what that's going
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  Speaker 4: to look like as people pass through it. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: New Yorker says forget about the inside of the terminal.
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  Speaker 4: What about making improvements outside of the transit hub?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think maybe the crosswalks could be repainted a
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  Speaker 8: little bit and the lights. I don't know. Maybe they
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  Speaker 8: could be more audible for the elderly crossing as well.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe something for the people who are wheeling across in
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  Speaker 8: their wheelchairs could be good. I don't know what specifically,
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  Speaker 8: but a lot more accessibility for everybody.
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  Speaker 4: That is something we see a lot now when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to it. It's an $ 11 billion.
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  Speaker 8: Project, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you're like, is it really?
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  Speaker 1: Say that, $ 11 billion. I don't really think by the
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  Speaker 1: time all is said and done, it'll be $ 31 billion.
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  Speaker 4: The final figures will come out by the time the
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  Speaker 4: project is completed. Drum roll, please. 2035. Okay, so some
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  Speaker 4: people are dealing with this for a while. Some commuters
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  Speaker 4: say they have been experiencing... longer bus rides.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a little more traffic, but I deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, on weekends, oh my God, it's a mess.
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  Speaker 3: Like now, I have to try and catch the bus
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  Speaker 3: now before the rush hour.
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  Speaker 4: How long is it taking?
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  Speaker 3: For me, it takes me two hours to reach my destination.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it takes a toll on me when I reach work,
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Commuting's a full-time job.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie, all I'm thinking about is heading over the Lincoln Tunnel.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's already a mess.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with this.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be worse.
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  Speaker 9: I can't even, I've been saying recently, never in all
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  Speaker 9: the years, and it's been a long time since I've
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  Speaker 9: been driving in, have I had traffic on the Helix
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  Speaker 9: at four in the morning. Right.
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  Speaker 4: And it's there.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, the interesting thing is you ask anybody
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  Speaker 4: in the area, do you think congestion pricing has changed?
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  Speaker 1: Improved it.
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  Speaker 4: And that plays into this as well. People say, no,
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  Speaker 4: no way. It's the same thing. It's more cars, fewer traffic,
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  Speaker 4: and more construction, not just in Port Authority, but in Midtown,
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  Speaker 4: these construction projects that are holding drivers up alone. So
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  Speaker 4: it's a really... It's very complex the way transit works
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  Speaker 4: within the grid of Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: But it's very simple. When you pay more, you expect better.
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  Speaker 2: You don't expect worse.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Although the people who pound the hound, the greyhound, miserable.
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  Speaker 1: And then the people who flee to the Poconos because
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  Speaker 1: you can get an affordable house, a nice quality of life.
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  Speaker 1: It used to take two hours on that red bus
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  Speaker 1: to the Poconos. It now takes like four hours.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 9: Oofah.
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  Speaker 4: That's traffic for you.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning at 7.50. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's getting close. And, of course, we've been covering all
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections. But Mississippi? Mississippi is now in play?
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  Speaker 2: If Mississippi's in play, Republicans are in trouble. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. And Kamala Harris trying out her new personality
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  Speaker 2: after the 8 o'clock news.