\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 http://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Not sure why anyone should be surprised. NY government (both state and local) is pretty damned corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Luka Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 9 hours ago, Koko78 said: Not sure why anyone should be surprised. NY government (both state and local) is pretty damned corrupt. Unbelievably so at times. I love my home but damn there are a lot of NYers completely devoid of common sense or rational thought. They see blue, the pull the lever, no questions asked, no results required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Trump pulls brakes on $13B Obama-backed rail-tunnel plan An Obama-era plan to have the federal government finance half of a $13 billion rail tunnel project ran into a red light Friday from the Trump administration. The original Obama-era plan called for costs to be split among New York state, New Jersey and the federal government. "Your letter also references a non-existent '50/50' agreement between USDOT, New York, and New Jersey. There is no such agreement," wrote K. Jane Williams http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/31/trump-pulls-brakes-on-13b-obama-backed-rail-tunnel-plan.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Chris Christie killed that tunnel about five years ago IIRC. He said NJ doesn’t have the money to pay for it. It’s called fiscal responsibility, Alf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Nanker said: Chris Christie killed that tunnel about five years ago IIRC. He said NJ doesn’t have the money to pay for it. It’s called fiscal responsibility, Alf. Christie killed the original plan 8 yrs ago. This fight is about the latest proposal to fix the corridor, and it will be resolved, because if that tunnel fails, I don’t think Trump would be safe setting foot in Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 26 minutes ago, GG said: Christie killed the original plan 8 yrs ago. This fight is about the latest proposal to fix the corridor, and it will be resolved, because if that tunnel fails, I don’t think Trump would be safe setting foot in Manhattan. Just returned from visiting Hoboken and we went over the newly opened (to us) wing of the new Tappan Zee bridge. It’ll be eight lanes in each direction by the time the second wing is finished. Very impressive. It rivals some of the bridges and highways we saw in China. Has Cuomo figured out how to pay for it yet? Where is the NJ approach going to be located, and where does it dump out in Manhattan? It will be built now that the goobenor in NJ is a Democrat. It’ll be part of the great bipartisan leap forward and a hallmark of the great debt forgetfulness of his first term. “The Trump Tunnel” has quite a ring to it - no? Sounds better on the ear than the Frank R. Lautenberg Seacaucus train station. Oh these political monuments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 4 hours ago, Nanker said: Just returned from visiting Hoboken and we went over the newly opened (to us) wing of the new Tappan Zee bridge. It’ll be eight lanes in each direction by the time the second wing is finished. Very impressive. It rivals some of the bridges and highways we saw in China. Has Cuomo figured out how to pay for it yet? Where is the NJ approach going to be located, and where does it dump out in Manhattan? It will be built now that the goobenor in NJ is a Democrat. It’ll be part of the great bipartisan leap forward and a hallmark of the great debt forgetfulness of his first term. “The Trump Tunnel” has quite a ring to it - no? Sounds better on the ear than the Frank R. Lautenberg Seacaucus train station. Oh these political monuments! The new tunnel will be right next to the existing tube heading into Penn Station. In the meantime, the Portal Bridge is much more dire to fix. There are few places in the US where an upgrade is more desperately needed. You’re right, the speed & execution of Tappan Zee rebuild is miraculous by NYS standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 10 hours ago, Nanker said: Chris Christie killed that tunnel about five years ago IIRC. He said NJ doesn’t have the money to pay for it. It’s called fiscal responsibility, Alf. I'm 100% in favor of fiscal responsibility . The unions there are out of control and I retired GM . I back Trump to get this cost under control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 18 hours ago, GG said: The new tunnel will be right next to the existing tube heading into Penn Station. In the meantime, the Portal Bridge is much more dire to fix. There are few places in the US where an upgrade is more desperately needed. You’re right, the speed & execution of Tappan Zee rebuild is miraculous by NYS standards. The Portal Bridge. I was delayed many times on the commute into and out of The City by fires and switch problems that very spot caused. It would be great theatre if they built a high speed capable bridge alongside that old wreck, but made the Seacaucus traffic take the old girl track. But The Builder from Queens will be bipartisan and allow the Trump Track to go over the Trump Bridge to stop at the F. R. Lautenberg Seacaucus station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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