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Good morning ladies and gentlemen I'm caught McGuire of the Port Authority staff. May I introduce chairman was to S. Sloan Cole. He was appointed by the. I'm sorry he was appointed a commission of the Port of New York authority by a good governor of New York in one nine hundred forty six he was elected by the Board of Commissioners as their chairman and a full one nine hundred fifty one jam called. Good morning everybody. It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the second half of the ceremonies that it kiddingly Alexander Hamilton bridge. The George Washington Bridge bus station the upper Manhattan Expressway. And portions of the Cross Bronx Expressway. The Port Authority Police call it God is commanded by Lieutenant Frederick through Byrd Well a call of God please come forward. I. Hope. All. Right. Ladies and Gentlemen will you please remain standing. While the band plays the national anthem. Will you please remain standing in vocation will be presented by the Right Reverend Monsignor Edward J. Waterson pastor of the Church of the Incarnation. In the midst of these splendid works. We who are here gathered. Turn appropriately in humility and gratitude to the Almighty God Their first cause and bountiful source. We offer to the the praise that these works proclaim because they reflect the infinite perfections in their beauty and their order and the majesty of the concept to which they are fashioned in the beneficence they are so richly prepared to Bristowe. Down the God of creation design and director of the evolution of non-trivial elements and forces has found her fully provided the raw materials which can we see transformed into beauty and usefulness it is doll who by fashioning my likeness in his intellect and free will has ten down to him with the capacity to mold of them out and to harness the forces that are here martialed and submissiveness to his purposes in the high presence Almighty God we look back and admiration and gratitude to those hundreds of families who once lived on the site of these works and who generously accepted the sacrifice of home uncomfort for the benefit of millions of their fellow citizens it is from NY teaching that we have learned that sacrifice and freedom are inseparable. Those who deny he build walls and divide the children of light level the barriers that separate by these works we will move rapidly and freely in imitation of spiritual beings I'll Vista I think experience and knowledge will be widened families and friends will be more readily United knowledge and understanding of all our neighbors will be facilitated the defenses of America and therefore our freedom will be strengthened we bank Di abiding blessing Almighty God on these works and on those who conceived them those who have executed them and all those who cooperated in their completion and are mindful of the Holy Scripture unless the Lord build a house they labor in vain who build it aim at. Me. It. You Please sit down. Ladies and gentlemen it is now my pleasure. To introduce a member of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority vice chairman William J. Tracy. Here. To stand at the front. Thank you. We will hear from the chairman. In a few minutes. It is now my pleasure to introduce some of my colleagues of the Port Authority's Board of Commissioners my present vice chairman Jamesy Kellogg. Thank you. All right Cham and how it is called Thank You. Commissioner Donald below. Commissioner John J. Clancy. Commissioner Robert F. Michael Levy. Mission and Baxter JACKSON Thank you Commissioner Alexander helper and thank you. I'd like to take this occasion also. To introduce the general manager of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Georgie's Spado. Thank. You. And all my associates in the Port Authority. I would like to present. The executive director of the Port Authority Austin told them. During the dedication ceremonies of the lower level of the George Washington Bridge last August. He unveiled a specially commissioned work of art. It was the bust of the bridges designed I missed always a beautifully executed by the noted sculptor Willow Williams The sculpture is now on permanent view just to my right and I commend it to your attention. We are also pleased to display on the lower concourse watercolors and drawings by the late thanks to Dawes. Painted during the construction of the George Washington Bridge thirty years ago. I'm sure you will find in them vivid recollections of the original bridge construction it was largely through the efforts of Port Authority Commissioner Donald Philo that the wish of the artist to have been delivered to the Port Authority was carried out. Many of you were present last August at the dedication of the lower level of the George Washington Bridge. Today we are together again to dedicate if you please a cluster of other great projects to serve the transportation internal needs of the metropolitan region. As we do so I think the state indiscipline regional officials who work together so constructively in these great tasks have a right to ask a question. This question should be directed at the critics of AA progress in metropolitan transportation the a llama send the professional mourners. With blank forms of construction and planning contracts and the fact caucus. Is there any city or region. Where more has been accomplished over the past ten to fifteen years to achieve a bounce transportation system. The riper transit system of the city of New York was fifty years ahead of the rest of the country and it is now in the process of renewing its equipment for the thousand new cars just the other day Governor Rockefeller noted that under the state's program the commuter railroads of New York have one hundred sixty eight new and modern cause delivered ordered or intermediate prospect. And are in a state subway system the farm H. and M.. Is On The Way To be completely modernized and reconstructed. More miles of highway expressways and Turnpike have been built in New York and New Jersey than in any other metropolitan area in the country. With all our port problems no port region can match the new Piers and docks that have been built here by the city of New York and the Port Authority. And no airports in the country match the capacity and the range of our airports here in New York and New Jersey. So let us then bundle up the crying towels. And send them along with the melancholy profits to areas that have not learned to help themselves. As for the two governors here today as for the mayor of the world's greatest and busiest city and as for our own Bob Moses we're all too busy with rule plans and real projects to make continuing needs of the most vital and interesting metropolitan area in the world. Plans and projects for more highways and bridges and airports and pish and commuter rail road service the construction of the low level the upper Manhattan Expressway the George Washington Bridge bus station and the Alexander Hamilton bridge were recommended in the nine hundred fifty four joint study of the region's ought to real facilities. The study was made by the Port Authority in the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority with the strong support of the governors of New York and New Jersey in the mirror of New York who is then president of the borough of Manhattan. It is interesting to know that we are dedicating these facilities exactly it is to the day from the release of a joint study report. Out of our life and hard times. I think that you Bob and I would agree that in the planning and construction of great public improvements in this complex an argumentative metropolitan region that's about half of the costs. I want to thank Governor Rockefeller governor huge for McGovern the Mynah. And other officials or both states. I want to thank Mayor away and his colleagues in the government of the city of New York. I want to thank federal highway administrator Rex and his associates in the Federal Bureau of Public roads I want to thank the offices of the organizations both public and private all of whom contributed so much to the planning and construction of this fine public bus station. And I want to express our appreciation particularly for the work and assistance of white comma New Jersey's commissioner of highways and birch McMorrow and the Superintendent of Public Works of the state of New York. Beginning with the inaugural commuter service tomorrow this bus station will serve about fifty thousand passengers a day in its initial stage of operation it is designed to accommodate more than two hundred buses and some ten thousand passengers in a peak hour. In planning and building this bus station and the twelve lane upper Manhattan Expressway we naturally faced and had to overcome many critical obstacles. One of the most serious problems was the necessity real Ok some eighteen hundred and thirty five families and more than one hundred commercial tenants this task was accomplished without a single eviction. It was a matter of considerable gratification to all of us at the Port Authority that in this enormous public responsibility we enjoyed the utmost cooperation from all public officials leaders and members of civic business and religious groups here in Washington Heights. This I believe there's an appropriate moment for us to pay tribute to the memory of our mutual friend. And hired a respected community leader Louis Stern who for so long was a pillar of this community. One of our objectives in constructing the station was to provide a modern and conveniently located facility for interstate commuters with direct access to the bridge and New York City subway system. Another objective and this was uppermost in my Wagner's mind when I was borrow president he urged us to build it was to eliminate the traffic congestion. Caused by almost two thousand busses daily traveling over a busy city street to various sidewalk bus loading areas in Washington Heights the safety and comfort of the residents and possessions in the area need no longer be threatened by this bus traffic. Following a bus station sites will be free to share in the reconstruction of this whole neighborhood. Fifteen thousand commuters from Bergen SAIC and Rockland County as well enjoy the comfort and accommodation of the station every morning and evening they will no longer have to endure the rain in the cold of the waiting bus lines at one hundred sixty eighth Street. We recognize the continued growth potential of northern New Jersey served by the carriers who will use this facility. And we accordingly have provided for the expansion of the station. The passenger and suburban concourses and the roof can be extended Eastwood over Broadway to accommodate seventy additional pick up bus moments in the event of such expansion. We would build two bus plucking levels below the present platform of the turnaround structure. I'm sure we would all agree that the highlight of the bus stations architecture is this magnificent and unconventional concrete roof. It is the first example in our country of the work of the real world renowned architect and engineer Dr Pierluigi the heavy of the never as ought exemplified in major work such as the one nine hundred sixty Rome Olympic Stadium the Perelli skyscraper in the land the Turin exhibition hall and the Olympic Skyway in Rome has earned him a reputation and his position in his profession as The Wizard of concrete the effect of his talent however like that of all great authors reaches far beyond its own field I'm sure that this example will inspire millions of bus travels with this great beauty Unfortunately Dr never has on able to be hit with us today and it set us the following table from Italy. Deeply regretful for being on able to attend the bus terminal dedication ceremony. Please accept sincerest apologies also convey respect for regards to governors New York and New Jersey in my behalf. I feel greatly honored and extremely grateful for granting me an opportunity of leaving a lasting trace of my work in your splendid city my warmest personal regards. In recognition of Dr nervous autistic and professional ability and its application to the George Washington Bridge bus station the commissioners have authorized the award to him of a Port Authority sell them a dud it will be conveyed to the UK and everyone I want most appreciation and highest esteem for his genius. Thought and every word could not have been completed. Without the dedication and talent of the port authorities engineer of materials Edwin P. Pitman. Mr Pitman was responsible for integrating nervous European designs with American production techniques in the course of his monumental research work on this project he evaluated one hundred twenty nine different concrete compositions before finding those which satisfied for his diligence and successful leftish culminating in a highly valued Port Authority career of thirty six years the commissions have awarded Mr Pitman the Port Authority Distinguished Service Medal. As spokesman for the Port Authority commissioners I want to take this opportunity to bestow a commendation on the Port Authority staff whose efforts were effectively combined to provide this magnificent facility I cannot mention all who had a hand in its planning and construction. But I would like to credit the departments which carried the heaviest responsibility. The engineering department under Chief Engineer John and. A resident engineer on the product was topology NICUs. The terminals Department under Henry Davidson and Jack Rosen. Tunnels and bridges Department Shaw's H. Taylor director. And I port development department which led the planning effort beginning nine years ago under the direction of Roger Gilman and hated Johnson. As many of you know Mr Gilman has been barred from the four authority. By the governors of New York New Jersey and Connecticut Service director of the Tri-State Transportation Committee. A. Few men. Have done so much and so many areas of public service as the man buck to introduce. I'm pleased and honored. To present my friend. The chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority the Honorable Robert B. Most Well thank. You. Sloan Colt your Excellency's just merit friends. These great metropolitan the land and water crossings. And incidental traffic facilities represent no happy impulse. No mere gleam in an official I. Know I Am bishops political and planning gestures. They are thrown open to the traveling public today I was the result of much thought conviction of them stubbornness in the face of misrepresentation misunderstanding and all the formidable obstacles. As you ride back six year old this roadway to the World's Fair Flushing Meadow. The off crop a low grade on the Cross Bronx Expressway which we made in the monolithic landscaping will show no scars and will seem always to have been like. This is no gasoline Gauley no elevated our soul as it sinks below and soars over the heart of the great city this is Metropolitan architecture and its finest Symes those who profess to believe that such results are obtained within the conventional political framework in a congested highly critical community by diplomacy smoothness and clever avoidance of criticism and controversy are never in evidence in the all hours of trouble and conspicuous only after the event when the successes acknowledge. In this as in all those similar contexts the cost of for long delays has been enormous I suppose we must charge it more or less cheerfully to the and here and expensiveness of the democratic process for the remaining east and west crossings from Long Island for a woman hopping in the Bronx over none of these thrilla haul them one hundred thousand. On across the palisades of the jersey meadows and beyond will be increasingly difficult to real lives as those in charge off warded Lampoon and libel done without study support. It is easy for demagogues to shout about bulldozer methods and in deference to the wishes of small people if the gov Smith was here he would call all men whop an elevated expressway Kathleen lowborn in it may be for years and it may be forever on the ol I have like them made in St Matthew it may not be dead but sleep. Nothing is easy of them to drum up opposition to any major public work. Well oppressed leans to sensation libel goes unpunished and officialdom war is about a lot votes and reprisals Henley's root barbs the less durable characters of broken like old matches only the tough serve on Earth over and over again I have seen dead projects miraculously revive minority opposition disappear. Conant submit to being ashamed of their initial bitter denunciation with all the Lower Manhattan elevated expressway bridge and tunnel congestion will be appalling if there is no midtown Manhattan elevated expressway the essential third to two of the Queens Midtown Tunnel and its maze of Queens ought to aerial approaches will be impossible to finance with all due respect to the elected officials who suffer most from the pressures of vociferous minorities time will tell them how short sided the opposition to these links in the great metropolitan chain has been. Is there a fein economist who proposes to curtail the production of mold a cause if there are more cause that must be more roads for them to run on and in building leads roads through traffic must be separated from the local street pattern. This building of public works to meet the challenges of open growth is a fascinating and baffling business on the number of those willing to take it on grows less Nobody can clear the way for these laws which lift and depressed expressways above and below the local streets and over and on to rev us without moving people and business and it can't be done with mirrors by sleight of hand all by magic the task is for those more concerned with ultimate respect than with immediate popularity. Perhaps this is why in addition to any energy we may still possess those of us who have been in the game a long time and want nothing far left have something to offer wise men were living before us we have invented little not most we have supplied them got some elbow grease to build while those previously urged but lacked the gumption support and luck to achieve. It we were not for the big authorities with their relative independence and private financing the task would be hopeless but the authorities are not automatic eat electronic business machines they perform no miracles without man the Port Authority came into its own slowly tribe are always a paper organization for a decade on the power authority it was dormant for twenty four years before anything significant happened. Some of us who have been called upon by the heads of the state and city governments to establish new war rescue and revitalize sluggish or dying authorities have accepted the task because of public duty without expectation of plaudits the success of agencies like the fort of New York authority in the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority on the Power Authority of New York is evidenced by the solemn reputation and rating of the bombs on the confidence and holes in them by banks bankers and prudent investors if this con confidence is undermined the authorities will soon decline and this ingenious device combining government business and private financing will no longer have merit or ability we have the tribe are all of been most happy you know our close association with the Port of New York authority and I can speak also as the link which cements the authorities within the city federal and state ought to aerial program many public agencies private corporations engineers and technicians have joined the building trades and the makers of steel and other materials in this notable example of cooperation much remains to be done to finish the Metropolitan off Tiriel complex and the end is not inside well of audience perhaps Logan was patience and fortitude it is as good a motto as any but there is today less time for patience and more demand for fortitude if the distinguished officials and speak here today will give us the tools and the backing before it is too late we can finish the job. We have traversed in good company of the spine I'm hot. We have mt rocks rivers and resistance of modern red skims the whole island of Manhattan cost only twenty four dollars maybe and this ought to real Maybe in time this ought to really expenditure to well be considered a bargain in any event the job has had its enduring satisfactions and that's all or else to public work. Thank you. Thank you very much Bob. This bus station. Is built directly above one of the world's busiest highways. Since this facility is usefulness and its future success depends so directly on adjacent highways. It is especially fitting that we have with us the man who was administer in construction of the largest highway system ever known. And I present the honorable Wrexham Whitten federal administrator of highways Thank you. Chairman Colt clergy Governor Rockefeller under his airway near our friend old friend Bob Moses long time friend director told been. Ladies and gentlemen. Certainly it is a pleasure for me to be at this formal opening. Of the bus station and Alexander Hamilton bridge and the expressway. There's hour and day and wonderful accomplishments. That was my pleasure to drive over the expressway this morning from the bridge. And to add my dad the fine and workmanship and design and on on the bridge as well as the expressway. I know what this expressway and red will mean to the people of this area and time saving. And inconvenience I understand that they all rolled the plane the George Washington Bridge and the expressway is to right took one hour to accomplish now with the opening of this expressway tomorrow I'm going to stand it will take fifteen minutes forty five minutes saving to the number of people who well be using the expressway as a tremendous saving. But not only is it of the convenience to the people of this community it is a part as the chairman called has sat on the vast interstate system of the highway some forty one thousand miles on this highway you can go from Holton main through this area to Miami Florida and to the east and west you can connect with other highways it will take it from that land it goes into the Pacific Ocean. And from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian martyr. So it will do a tremendous. Project to foster Commerce and Industry. And saving in time and lines. Another thing that I want to call your attention to that the people of this area have accomplished. Is the blending of the landscape into the community and expressways do change the landscape and here in my judgment you are leading the way in making the landscape of a new expressway fit into the air. And making it more beautiful even then before I expect I'm president being in the work I'm in but it is a beautiful site and here you have also. Led the way on the use of their space above the highway by this magnificent bus station and by these apartments that are being built to think oh above the expressway you are taking advantage of airspace and killing off if you plays some of the objections that Moses has and chairman slow cold and others and their way or have experience in New York City that we were ruining this city because we were cutting out tax. Tax advantages but here they are being replaced and I congratulate you gentlemen on what you have done. And then there is something else but this bus station does all expressways have to be unloaded and loaded and provide a place where people can get on and off and this is an amazing example of them of having made an accomplishment I want to end with this thought it was my pleasure yesterday to take a helicopter ride over the city in the Port Authority's. Helicopter with Roger Gilman and and what's all. And it was a great experience for me to see what you have done here in the New York City area. There are two. Amazing modern America office. The miracle of cooperation between the levels of government there thorough it is they said it the states and the federal government that is an amazing miracle to me to see that you have gotten together and you have to convince your people that this project should be done and then the second America is America all of the engineering design and engineering construction. I have spent my working life and this highway business and this is truly a miracle of construction and miracle of design. And I congratulate you the officials and the people the people who were wise enough to see that this needed to be done and listen to the counsel of your leadership I am happy to have had a part in this wonderful dedication today thank you so much thank. You. Thank you very much Mr WEST. When he was Manhattan Borough president. On next distinguished guest took a leading part in the development of plans for this bus station as we all know. It is now my privilege pleasure to present. The matter of the city of New York on the boat Robert F. way. Thank you Sancho have been members of the clergy in Iraq following them the U S M I was Rex what Jim KALYDECO And ladies and gentlemen. Very pleased to be here today at this dedication ceremonies for the Alexander Hamilton bridge George Washington Bridge bus station. It is singularly appropriate that the names of these two great Americans so close to each other and I history have been given to these two new structures we dedicate today. It is said that when Alexander Hamilton read of Washington's death he wept and said America has lost his Savior and I a father. I fall from here is the site of the sixteen a cup fight Alexander Hamilton Boyd and seven hundred ninety nine and on which he built the Grange and if we cos we know that George Washington as military leader of the Continental Army is very familiar with this entire immediate area. And dedicating the Alexander Hamilton bridge today we honor an American statesman whose constructive imagination was dedicated to strengthening the human. Like George Washington how Milton perceived that the strength of America's greatness must be Continental and not provincial. The facilitators which we dedicate today do want to add to both the sweep of Alexander Hamilton vision and George Washington's faith in the future of America. As these facilities are increasingly you they will benefit neighborhoods in New York City New Jersey and Fabi on the horizons of on metropolitan area. It is a sauce of considerable gratification to me today to see the fruition of plans discussed with the Port Authority in the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority nearly a decade ago during my term as Baro president of Manhattan and I'm proud to say that throughout the long and difficult period of planning and construction of these fine facilities and he branches of our city administration including the office of the Baro president the city planning commission the pocks the potman the police and traffic departments carried a share of the load that made these results possible. I'm proud to recall that while I was borrow President the concept of the use of aspace above the George Washington Bridge Expressway for the construction of the very a pipe and building that we can see nearby came out of our office and we can also claim some credit for the concept of an enclosed bus station to remove into city buses from our congested city streets. And making the expression ways air rights available to the city of New York for one dollar. Port Authority has made a welcome contribution to the solution of AA problem of finding new housing space for I said it's. With the inauguration of service into this bridge and Bus Terminal thousands of commuters from New Jersey and Rockland County will enjoy the benefit of modern centralized and efficiently planned transfer facilities to that destinations from this magnificent modern termino. Commuters will now be able to speak quickly to their places of business throughout the city by the subway or bus connections cos New Yorkers who work in New Jersey will enjoy the same benefits of easy commuting by bus as soon as those big vehicles start moving up the ramps from this bridge in referring to this terminal I must pay my tribute to its creator has seen you on navvy. Who in this very functional but beautiful structure has added his distinguished name to those of many other world famous architects whose genius is reflected in the great buildings and facilities in our city by virtue of such structures as the Guggenheim Museum of Frank Lloyd Wright T.W.A. terminal at Idlewild by Saturn and New York City is becoming a living museum of modern architecture and of cos it should be recalled at the George Washington Bridge which some New York has considered the most beautiful manmade structure and I city was conceived by the great engineer a stack and then it was bust is within view of us. Communications facilities we dedicate today are all vital links in a major network that includes the Cross Bronx Expressway the Alexander Hamilton bridge the George Washington Bridge Expressway and the magnificent two level crossing high above the Hudson to New Jersey. The travelers who use this network of traffic arteries will realize a truly regional nature of our interconnected transport system and the advantage it gives to those who travel over it we look forward to the completion of other major segments of this Tarea lifeline the clove lakes and Willowbrook expressways on Staten Island the great new bridge across the narrow roads and the connection of the Cross Bronx and Major Deegan Expressway. The addition of these vital projects will benefit the entire region and the people who live and work in it. These are all part of the legend called New York which is known throughout the world it is the same legend which inspired John Steinbeck to say that once you have lived in New York and it has become the off home no place else is good enough we mean that we will maintain it that way to the best of our ability. And as mayor of New York City I congratulate every person who has had a hand in the conception and construction of the structures we dedicate today they will be a great force for progress and prosperity in this city we love so much thank you thank you. Thank you very much no thank you. Now ladies and gentlemen I present the vice chairman of the Port Authority honorable Jamesy callout Yeah. Chairman Robin clergy governor rock fall are going to use their weiner Mr Moses Mr ladies and gentlemen as a lifelong lifetime resident of New Jersey I take great pride in never to seeing a man who is already considered our state's greatest governor I have the honor and pleasure to present the governor of the state of New Jersey you know on a boat Richard J. you. Thank you. Thank you very much Jim Kellogg chairman call Chairman Moses irreverent clergy the Rockefeller Wagner they are right here. Ladies and gentlemen I can't continue naming all these other distinguished guests because I know that we're getting near the ending hour of this program. Today it seems to me a predominantly that the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area as taking another quite vigorous step toward solution of the problems which are part of our complex urban way of life. The most encouraging aspect in the development of this new arterial system I think. Is the proven capability of state and municipal governments and their agencies to plan and work together in the way described by administrator with to provide for their future growth and welfare of the people of the region and if the growth of the future is to work to the advantage of the region and its people and it just has to be rather than to their disadvantage and confusion then we will have to exercise much more of the same intergovernmental planning and achieve chief among the factors which will determine the continued prosperity and economic growth of this area. As any fission interstate commuter transportation system the inner elated projects we dedicate here today are excellent examples of what can be done to assure this neither railroad systems nor highways alone can ever accommodate the transportation needs of the area a balanced regional system in which each factor is a part. Is required for the efficient flow of people and goods to the overall benefit of the region in which we all that. This important George Washington Bridge Bus Station Terminal will be a boon to commuters from Bergen in Passaic counters and as governor of New Jersey I feel particularly sensitive to this feature the growth of these counties already has and will continue to be phenomenal there are people now will enjoy a faster and certainly a much more comfortable trip into New York City and similarly the existence of the same facilities will make the area west of the Hudson more attractive and to do industry and to the rapidly increasing number of New Yorkers who earn their living in New Jersey. I might say that with apologies to Mayor Wagner we don't compete for these residents but we welcome all those New Yorkers that want to come over and live in New Jersey. The Garden State. Has to face up to its overall transportation needs of the next twenty five years and for that reason as some of you may have noticed I have asked our State University to sponsor a state wide forum on this subject that I think will result in proposals to meet our highway and rail requirements for the coming important years we're working over in Jersey on other essential segments of a commuter transportation system to benefit the people of the entire region and as you know the Port Authority is moving very quickly and efficiently under the mandate of New York and New Jersey to rehabilitate and reconstruct the antiquated Hudson tube system the earth already plans for new commuter transfer stations will further benefit railroad commuters both New York State and New Jersey have underway active and constructive programs to save and improve their respective commuter rail service in this regard I wish to add to the commendation it has been mentioned here about the accomplishments in New York and with due modesty I mentioned a valuable accomplishments of our New Jersey Division of railroad transportation under the guidance of our great distinguished Highway Commission adroit bomber and planning a broad commuter rail network and in administering our program of economic aid to railroads. Sotto through the cooperative effort of the states of New York and New Jersey and Connecticut the tri state transportation committee is hard work on both short and long range action programs to meet the immediate and long term transportation needs of this region. It's first project a new park and ride rail service and station near New Brunswick has just qualified for a federal demonstration Grant I suppose everyone here was impressed with this as I was this morning by this particular regional arterial system as we followed it across Manhattan and into New Jersey it's typical of the massive highway programs that are pushing ahead on both sides of the Hudson drawing our industries our markets our people are very life much closer together accomplishment of the great task of building the facilities we salute today the lower level of the George Washington Bridge its expansive new approaches all the sayings were made possible by the generous cooperation of more than a dozen agencies and offices representing virtually all levels of government and therefore I think it can be with justified optimism that we dedicate the Alexander Hamilton bridge in this great bus terminal Cho in a series of regional accomplishments projects such as these are in themselves the greatest tribute to the vision and character which is essential it's going to be a sanction to turn challenges and headaches into achievements and progress to benefit the people of our two states thank you very much for having me here thank you thank you. Thank you very much going. On next week is the first citizen of the state of New York. It is my great honor and privilege. To present the distinguished governor of the state of New York the honorable Nelson a Rockefeller. Thank you very much indeed as to Chamonix Sloan Koch vice chairman Jim Kellogg. Governor accused always nice to see you here and the side of the river reverend clergy where Wagner. Must be a very happy occasion for you having started this idea as by the president here in the city. So I say also to have the federal highway commissioner here on this occasion Mr Whitten who has done so much for all of the States and his very wise and intelligent handling of the federal funds for the highway program so. It's always a pleasure to listen to Commissioner Moses and I think on this occasion that he made one of his really great speeches. There are two man present here who it seems to me particularly appropriate today. First representing the management. And the brilliant director of the Port Authority. Is to Austin Tobin who represents the architects the engineers and the management side and. And also representing those skilled workers who made possible this magnificent project Mr Peter Brennan who is here from the building instruction trades yells at the bank. That all of us are tremendously indebted to the members of the Port Authority the members of the board who have done such a magnificent job over the years and now I'd like to assure you that there are only six minutes away from lunch. The ceremonies this morning at which we open a new bridge and I dedicate this bus terminal range and there are implications from a static considerations of design to whether a commuter gets a second cup of coffee before he leaves for work this bus station transforms the poetry of an architectural genius docked in Arabic into the magnificent concrete reality of this bus station it also provides a practical means of cutting a quarter of an hour each trip from the commuting time for fifty thousand residents of Rockland County in New Jersey who work in New York City thus a ving some twenty five thousand man hours per day for busy hard working men and women who commute to the city. Further it gives new substance to a dream. This bus station and the apartments I made it into the east of us are built on air rights thus they are a practical demonstration of the use of the space above public property through which I hope in cooperation with his Honor the Mayor to see housing created in this great city for one million residents in the next ten years without displacing people any people in housing now existed. Similarly the Alexander Hamilton bridge over the Harlem River which we opened in the short time earlier today coupled with the stim the simultaneous completion of the last link of the Cross Bronx Expressway gives meaning to yet another example of man's creative imagination. Through these great public works motorists from as far away as West in Suffolk County now have a full express route across the New York metropolitan area to New Jersey and this represents one of the most magnificent highway accomplishments in the recent history of the state all this has become possible to the practical workings of the concept on which our founding fathers created this nation the Federalist idea that achieves unity of purpose within a diversity of initiatives and the sources of creativity this bus terminal the bridge the expressway that feed traffic and of them are all products of cooperation between city state and federal governments between public authorities private enterprise and free labor and between the two states involved credit belongs to also to a rich variety of individuals and groups to the skilled and dedicated workman the engineer the architect. To the motorists who were inconvenienced during the construction and today magnificent families who moved virtually without complaint because of their deep understanding of the problem to make way for the expressway to the Port Authority and to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority such cooperation is essential to the highways and the related facilities blanketing this area and yet to come a part of a Web two dense for a single agency to wait. State and Federal arterial expressway program in New York City has already required commitments in the hundreds of millions of dollars and it will cost hundreds of millions more before it is and it is completed. Commission about most US has done a superb job as coordinator of construction for all of these projects and the people of the two states are deeply grateful to them and I say cherish the opportunity with Governor Hughes to express to Bob Moses that deep appreciation. A section of the nuance of the Sheraton expressway linking the Bruckner on the Cross Bronx Expressway will be opened on February sixth design is already underway for rebuilding portions of the West Side Highway and for other highway improvements and the metropolitan area this bus station stands in New York City to serve the people who travel between the state of New Jersey in the state of New York the Alexander Hamilton bridge which we just dedicated is part of a federal highway system built by the state through the city cooperation among federal state and local governments. Extends to related agencies such as the tri state transportation committee appointed by the governors of Connecticut New Jersey and New York to help solve the transit crisis their first high their first highway status report as just been issued their work has already proved its vetted and will be greatly expanded when the three states approve its establishment as an interstate compact agency as recommended by Governor Hughes governor Dempsey and myself and I would like to take this opportunity to say to Governor Hughes here today that has been a great pleasure to work with him on these mutual projects of the interest and respecting the two states his cooperation has been tremendously effective and particularly so with respect to the development of the word World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Continued fine work as shown by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority a city agency also one of the brilliant leadership of Moses which will soon provide us with the Narrows Bridge a quote of New York Authority continues to offer to the people of the by state area so Lucian's of transportation problems under the leadership of just a slum called and Austin told them on the ball I hope that its solution to come its solutions to come match in scope of fish and sea and appearance the fine facilities which we dedicate here today by state area looks forward to growth and prosperity based on a transportation system of the future. Not an adequate leftover system from the past for transportation as in so many other areas vital facets of our complicated society we can expect big things for tomorrow only by planning big today thank you Tom. Thank you very much on Iraq for one. I have mentioned and others have. Of the bust of Mr Bowman. That is the bust. But the original is here would he please stand up. As you all know. This is the second bus facility constructed by the Port Authority. In one thousand nine hundred fifty. At the dedication of our midtown on Eighth Avenue. We were pleased to have the assistance of Maggie come on the charming daughter of an honorary honorary chairman Hogg and chairman. We felt that no similar dedication would be quite complete. Without a repetition of that calm touch. Today we are happy to have with us Mr Cummins young son prime. Prime would you please help us by assisting the governors and the mayor in unveiling this bus station studded Cory plaque behind him on a. Governor's oh. Oh. Ladies and gentlemen I now declare this George Washington Bridge bus station officially dedicated. But before the benediction. Before the benediction. May I say that you are all cordially invited to join us at a reception on the floor directly below this one immediately following the ceremony. Request you please to use the motor stairs at the rear of this level. For those of you are unable to stay for the reception and luncheon to follow. Buses will leave the supreme level immediately following these ceremonies. May I now call upon Rabbi more A S I cower. Of the congregation Mount Sinai I'm sure. YOU THANK YOU. Are benediction derives from Exodus thirty nine and Moses saw the work and behold they had done it and Moses bless them he said to them even as I say unto you made be the will of God that is presence rest upon the work of your hands and made the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us yea the work of our hands firmly get stablished the way it let all know pass through the sports or us come and go in safety and under the like items reach expected destinations the Lord bless the and keep the Lord make his face to shine upon the it be a gracious onto the the Lord lift up his countenance upon the and give the he says a man. Thank you all for helping to make today a memorable occasion for you ceremonies and our journey.