(1) Each air terminal within the Port of New York district serves the entire district, and the problem of furnishing proper and adequate air terminal facilities within the district is a regional and interstate problem;

(2) Access by land travel to the great airports serving the Port of New York district, particularly John F. Kennedy and Newark International Airports, is becoming increasingly difficult, and such access is necessary for the continued development of such airports which development is vital and essential to the preservation of the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York Metropolitan area;

(3) Additional highway construction to serve these great airports is not feasible and creates severe problems in terms of increased air pollution and the preemption of land which might otherwise be devoted to park purposes and other desirable uses;

(4) Access to these airports by railroads or other forms of mass transportation must be undertaken if they are to maintain their preeminence and continue to serve the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New York Metropolitan area;

(5) Such mass transportation facilities may properly be regarded as constituting a part of each air terminal, the development of which should be the responsibility of those charged with the duties of air terminal development;

(6) It is the purpose of this act to authorize and direct the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to undertake one or more mass transportation access projects specifically with respect to John F. Kennedy and Newark International Airports in order to preserve and develop the economic well-being of the Northern New Jersey-New york Metropolitan area, and such undertakings are found and determined to be in the public interest.

L.1971, c. 245, s. 1. Amended by L.1972, c. 207, s. 1.