Breakout Session - Underground, Under Water and Under Heavy Pressure: Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Response

Instructors:  James Munday,CEM and Adam McLaughlin, MPA,CEM; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The 2004 Madrid train bombings, the attacks on London’s transportation system in 2005, and the explosives attacks on India’s passenger railroad in July 2006 have made it clear that rail networks are high value targets for terrorist organizations. Subsequently, this presentation will discuss techniques used by the Port Authority of NY & NJ OEM to manage an interagency planning effort, including two full-scale exercises between 2007 and 2009, to effectively respond to an explosives attack on a Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) train moving under the Hudson River between Exchange Place station in Jersey City and the World Trade Center station in lower Manhattan.