New York City PATH

You are pressed up against a sea of commuters as they make their way from Manhattan to New Jersey. The train’s movements are almost like a lullaby that you have grown accustomed to for years. You know its rhythm, and the way it snakes and moves around bends. You know most of your fellow commuters will be listening to iPods or deeply absorbed in sending out texts and emails. The automated train operator tells you have reached 14th St and are on your way to 33rd St.

Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit railroad serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey and Manhattan in New York City. It is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run 24 hours a day and is one of only five mass-transit rail lines in the United States to do so (the others being the PATCO Speedline, the Red and Blue Lines of the Chicago 'L’, the Staten Island Railway, and the New York City Subway). The system has a route length of 13.8 miles (22.2 km), not including any route overlap.[ As of 2012, PATH had an average weekday ridership of 262,900.PATH trains only use tunnels in Manhattan, Hoboken and downtown Jersey City