The Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey
The owners of the site.
The Civic Alliance
A coalition organized by the Regional Plan
Association,bringing together groups with a definite bias toward
causing change in the city...they put together the
Listening to the City
events,most recently
online.
Reconstruction Report
They keep tabs on the process too.But they DON'T want the Towers back!
Largely inactive
Downtown Express(new site)
A community paper for the Lower Manhattan area,they are editorially
a bit anti-Towers but they have offered (moderated) comment-posting
opportunities on all their stories.Be heard!
Site continues to link to their
(old site for archives through April 2003) but it's gone.
Save West Street
Opponents of another of the planners' efforts...the turning of West
Street,along the west side of the WTC site,into a tunnel.Potential
allies against bad visions,they have succeeded in stopping the tunnel.
Many residents of the affected area,built on landfill from WTC
excavation,do want the Towers back.
Skyscraper Safety Campaign
Only implicitly anti-Towers in some of their statements,this group is
concerned with toughening building codes...the bias that taller buildings
won't stand long enough to evacuate needs to be met with the fact that
shorter buildings are inclined to collapse disproportionately faster.
Of course new Towers should be as safe as possible,but codes should not
mandate the impossible.
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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.