Posted on 12/02/2020 10:28:44 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What the L?
Gov. Cuomo rocked the regional transportation world this week when he cheered a report suggesting that the existing cross-Hudson tunnels between New Jersey and New York don’t need a full shutdown to rebuild them, potentially throwing yet another wrench into the plan to build a new pair of tunnels to boost interstate rail capacity, a $13-billion piece of the Gateway Project.
It’s the latest baffling twist in the decade-plus-long saga.
On Sunday, the governor suggested that a report done for the Port Authority by consultants London Bridge Associates showed that the existing century-old tunnels could be fixed while remaining in service — a strategy he used when he big-footed the experts last year and decided to fix a badly damaged L train tunnel without a full shutdown. The Cuomo (and outside consultant) plan relied on hanging power cables on racks on the tunnel walls and encasing broken concrete walls in Fiberglas rather than the more elaborate (and perhaps longer-lasting) repairs that had originally been planned.
The Cuomo scheme had one advantage: subway service could continue, albeit on a truncated schedule, while repairs were done, so perhaps it’s no surprise that Cuomo is promoting the LBA report, which makes the case that repairs can be done on nights and weekends. And, critically for the future of the Gateway Project, the report suggests the repairs can be done without building another pair of tunnels first — a time-saving, but controversial, notion.
How well did Cuomo’s bombshell go over? Really well … unless you value the opinion of all of New Jersey’s political leadership and Amtrak itself, who all suggested Cuomo had betrayed them.
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Slick Andy Cuomo.
PING!
LBA is probably a Cuomo donor.
He will likely hire the same CCP company that is now installing a 3rd track on nine miles of the LIRR’S mail line for $11 Billion .
It should be illegal for a foreign contractor to handle municipal jobs.
Liberal states didn’t get the bailout they were counting on from Congress and now can’t afford projects
Time to take another look: commuting into Manhattan is way, way down. Will it ever come back? How do the assumptions behind the Gateway Project match up with the new reality?
New Yorkers put this putz in office. And they’ll keep on doing it. No sympathy for them.
Yep. With no electoral college system to keep Albany and the Big City (minus Staten Island) from overwhelming the vast Upstate area, it will always be this way.
Mario Cuomo was governor of NY for 11 years. New Yorkers will just keep putting Democrats in state and local offices. They never learn.
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