Paterson promises answers on WTC project schedule
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Gov. David Paterson today pledged “no more phony deadlines’’ about when Ground Zero may be rebuilt, and gave the head of the Port Authority another 90 days to come up with a workable schedule.
“It’s not possible to give any dates and timetables at this time,’’ Paterson said at a Manhattan news conference of the oft-delayed project to redevelop the former World Trade Center site that was destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.He said a report prepared by Port Authority Executive Director Christopher Ward found that 19 separate agencies are involved in the process, with no one organization in charge. He also said there are “15 unanswered questions’’ that have to be addressed before the projects can move forward.
Paterson declined to assign blame for the long delay, but promised to be more open about the projects’ prospects from now on.
“In the future we will be as transparent and as honest as possible,’’ he said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
