There’s just nothing my neighbors in Mahalasville, Indiana, would rather pay taxes for than a palatial train station in New York City.
Everything in N.Y. City is expensive, and it’s not the same city that Rudi Giuliani left. There are still some amazing places in the city, but you have to be willing to watch where you step in order to get to one and watch your back. After dark you better have a friend or two. Unless you have the bucks and can be chauffer driven to and from. I am only an hour to an hour 1/2 away, but no desire to go there. A damned shame caused by liberal idiots.
“public-private partnership “
Sounds good
“public-private partnership model” is the problem. This is what Dems do. Take public assets like parks, stations, etc. and privately manage them for themselves as money making operations with a cut going to the government. They get control of the public asset then turn around and charge for entrance, no-contest concessions and for-pay services. All which used to be free or very little cost.
Dems run govt for their benefit not the public’s.
I’m 66, they’ve been revamping Penn for all of my life. The first revamp in the early sixties did away with one hell of a striking erector set concoction that has been lamented by many over the years.
No one knows how to revamp buildings in NYC better than Trump.
This is about rooting out money laundering and the elaborate waste, stalling and corruption. He knows what he’s looking at here and how to present it to the governor to turn it around and actually fix this horrible place.
Inner city New Yorkers vote for dems to run this metro, they hated Giuliani with his rules and regulations that cleaned up the city, making it a safe place.
Long Islanders put up with the horrendous penn station while watching dem governor after another sit on their tax money. They do vote for Trump more than any blue Texas city, so we’ll see
I don’t favor fed taxes going into it but there is an Amtrak station and a train that serves the Jersey Shore
I’m confused. Didn’t the new Moynihan Station (previously the post office) across 7th Avenue replace Penn Station?
How was the MTA even in charge? The station is owned by Amtrak and the MTA is just a tenant (the Long Island Rail Road).
I would be happy if they would just post proper signage to get from New Jersey Transit to the Long Island Rail Road and back for when I have to use JFK airport. I do that infrequently and the signage is horrible. It takes a bit of wandering around to find the way, and where to buy a ticket for the next train.
Amtrak huh. That should end well.
Wasn’t it a stand-alone guv’mt outfit like the MTA that designed and built that asinine TwinTowers? You know, a design like a cheap beer can where all the structural elements are on the perimeter — where they are vulnerable.
That's a win.
I understand why the MTA was/is involved, yet their involvement should not have put them in charge of the project.
While the original Penn Station may have been just a train station serving the now gone Pennsylvania Railroad, the current Penn Station is an infrastructure that serves Amtrak train lines, train lines of the New Jersey Transit system, train lines of the Long Island Railroad, and access to multiple subway lines transiting under 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue. It is more than a single “train station”. It is a major transit hub serving four government transportation enterprises, each with its own governance and stake holders.
Anyone trying to satisfy the competing legitimate interests has a herculean task. However, the Trump administration decision is the right one, as Amtrak owns Penn Station, not the MTA, not the Long Island Railroad, not New Jersey Transit. Yes, Amtrak needs to address their concerns and interests, but need not surrender its authority.
More than just putting Amtrak in charge, they need to declare, or make by law, that all of Penn Station is federal property, and then cut off NY, NYC red tape and reduce the federal red tape to make decisions and get the project done.