text: Port Authority: A record-breaking month for transportation
  Planes, trains and shipping containers: Port Authority announces August records
  Newark Liberty Airport set an all-time record of August travel.
  The three area major airports moved $13.2 million passengers in August.
  PATH had approximately 281,000 riders every weekday.
  The Port of New York and New Jersey set another monthly cargo record.
  August was another record-breaking month by rail, sky and sea, the Port Authority announced Monday.
  The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey set a new monthly cargo record last month with 676,000 container units moved, an increase of over 10,000 from the previous all-time record set in July. The Port retains its status as the second busiest in the nation, after surpassing Long Beach earlier this year.
  PATH had an average weekday ridership of 281,000 and moved over 7 million passengers total in August. Excluding the inflated numbers from 2017's "summer of hell," it's an August record. The weekday average for 2019 continues to be up, about 1.6%, from 2018.
  Air travel also had a record-setting month. Newark Liberty International had the most August passengers in the airport's history. Combined with John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia, Port Authority airports moved 13.2 million passengers in August. It's the busiest August in history for these airports to round out the busiest summer ever recorded.
  In total, JFK, Newark and LaGuardia have moved over 94 million passengers so far this year. The airport system is on track for an annual passenger record in 2019.
  Traffic on Port Authority's bridges and tunnels has continued to increase, up 1% last month from August 2018.