§ 4A. The port authority is hereby authorized and empowered, in its
discretion, to construct, own, maintain and operate in Washington
Heights in the borough of Manhattan, New York city, as an addition and
improvement to the vehicular bridge over the Hudson river at Fort Lee,
known as and hereinafter in this section referred to as the George
Washington bridge, a bus passenger facility, by which is meant a
facility consisting of one or more buildings, structures, improvements,
loading or unloading areas, parking areas or other facilities necessary,
convenient or desirable in the opinion of the port authority for the
accommodation of omnibuses and other motor vehicles operated by carriers
engaged in the transportation of passengers, or for the loading,
unloading, interchange or transfer of such passengers or their baggage,
or otherwise for the accommodation, use or convenience of such
passengers or such carriers or their employees and for purposes
incidental thereto.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent the port authority
from establishing, levying and collecting tolls and other charges in
connection with such bus passenger facility in addition to and other
than the tolls or charges established, levied and collected in
connection with the George Washington bridge or any other bridge or
tunnel.