Moreover, he aims to promote a self-sustaining bicycle economy with regional operations assembling the bikes and area mechanics trained to repair them.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the agency was deploying additional staff and is assembling snow-fighting equipment for area's airports, bridges and tunnels, and the PATH train system.
To that end, it has hired 3, 500 people during the worst recession in decades and is currently staffing up with about 1, 500 new workers at its Charlotte-area facility where it is assembling gas turbines.