Obstacles and Advantages
- The land upon which the walkway is built (or to be built) is held privately and publicly. Much is used by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
- Privately held land is not required to have a walkway until it is re-developed. In some instances, some gated-developments have provided only minimal perpendicular access which is often not clearly indicated.
- The topography is diverse, with canals or coves that come quite far inland, requiring the walkway to either go around them or cross them with bridges.
- Transportation, industrial, or maritime infrastructure is found along the route, and construction of HRWW could interfere with their operation and public safety.
- Much of the land which the walkway crosses had maritime or industrial uses and became obsolete or was abandoned. Chapel Avenue provides access at Caven Point in Jersey City, but the area south of there is still actively used for these purposes.
- Each municipality implements and enforces its own zoning rules, and often negotiates with developers with a local rather than regional interest, and have other municipal open-space projects to which funds must be dedicated.
- Most housing and commercial real-estate developers see the advantage of providing access to the water as an amenity.
- Some sections of the walkway are easily accessible by public transportation, such as the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, NY Waterway ferries, and New Jersey Transit bus terminals at Hoboken Terminal and Exchange Place.
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