"An estimated five million visitors a year are expected to arrive in Lower Manhattan after the National September 11 Memorial and Museum opens on September 11, 2011, but with 200 days to go, Luis Sanchez, the Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner for the city's Department of Transportation, told a town hall meeting last month convened by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer said that plans had not yet been finalized as to how these visitors would get to Lower Manhattan and where tour buses would park, according to an article by Terese Loeb Kreuzer in the Downtown Express.

The article said that in order to accommodate the influx of visitors on what will remain a construction site for years to come, timed passes will be issued by the September 11 Museum, adding that Mr. Sanchez said that carriers that drop their passengers off site, possibly in New Jersey to be ferried across the Hudson River, will get preference on tickets.

However, the article continued, some buses will inevitably have to drive to Lower Manhattan to deliver school groups and the disabled to the site and Mr. Sanchez said that tour bus operators were not obliged to sign up for the ticketing system.

Eventually, the article said, the Vehicle Security Center, which is behind schedule because of demolition delays at 130 Liberty Street, will be able to house some of the buses, but that facility won't be available until 2013.

The article said that Mr. Sanchez said that the Battery Park Garage was not an option for bus layovers.

The New York City D.O.T.," the article continued, "has identified an area bounded by Warren Street, Broadway, Battery Place and Battery Park City's North and South End Avenues that the buses could traverse, much to the dismay of residents, who fear traffic congestion, noise and fumes."

Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin, however, said that the community had not been party to making these plans and that she found this "troubling," the article added.