New York State Port Authority
Public Agenda
The New York State Port Authority, in collaboration with its colleagues in the "New Jersey State Port Authority" half of the joint agency, is charged with all aspects of the infrastructure for transporation within the state, into it, and out of it. They regulate traffic. They maintain, construct, and staff or oversee licensing for private operators to staff:
- roads,
- toll roads,
- bridges,
- docks and piers,
- tunnels,
- airports,
- bus terminals,
- railways,
- rail yards,
- subways,
- subway terminals,
- ferries,
- municipal parking decks,
- all fixtures immediately outside the United Nations Building,
- one municipal helipad per borough of New York City and at most one municipal helipad in any other major city of New York State,
- a site in Staten Island and another in the Bronx where prototypes for a new "single passenger hoverpod" public transit system are scheduled for testing in late 2010 or early 2011, as developed in a joint venture by Cadmus Foundation and STAR Labs.
The New York State Port Authority works with several other state and federal agencies on matters such as international visitors (Department of Homeland Security, working together at the airports or seaports) or international merchandise shipments (United States Customs Office). The boundary between responsibilities is finely yet firmly defined between the Port Authority and the Department of Transportation regarding automotive bridges, railway bridges, tunnels, and similar overlapping areas.
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municipal colleagues
While the NYSPA tends to think of the Department of Sanitation as "competent enough people, a bit clumsy sometimes with those behemoth vehicles of theirs", employees in the DoS tends to think of the New York State Port Authority as slightly oblivious to the everyday realities when it comes to diesel engines, traffic in the sixth most populous city in the world.
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Author's Notes
All policies, actions, individuals, events, and places in our story are not representative of the real-world agency, its people, or its works. We do not describe actual security measures that might interact with villain plots; we do not speak for the rulings or regulations that the real-world agency might have in place regarding capes, power armor, or strange visitors from another world.