Posted on 10/15/2010 4:54:40 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
The money might be better spent on New Jersey's roads, which are rated among the worst in the nation.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has come under intense criticism for threatening to cancel the largest infrastructure project in the nation, a new rail tunnel connecting New York City with the Garden State. But Mr. Christie is right to be skeptical.
Much of the censure is coming from an "infrastructure über alles" crowd that too readily ignores that the costs of these big projects are often grossly underestimated and their benefits significantly exaggerated.
The rail tunnel, known as the Access to the Region's Core, or ARC, is meant to relieve the overcrowding in the already-existing rail tunnels under the Hudson River shared by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains. Currently, many commuter trains have to deposit passengers at an alternate rail station in Hoboken, N.J., where commuters then take subway-style trains into Manhattan. The ARC would create a direct link to midtown Manhattan for many of these commuters.
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Why don’t they just build another bridge?
A tunnel would require more mafia supplied concrete.
The actual price if any government project is half the estimate but will end up costing half-again more.
NJ can do without it’s very own big dig.
NO THANK YOU
A railroad bridge eats up a lot of precious real estate on both sides of the river. There are no bridges over the wide Hudson south of the George Washington, which is about 10 miles north of this site, which is why Sully Sullenberg decide to splash down there.
Build a ferry. lol.
“NJ can do without it’s very own big dig.
NO THANK YOU”
I’ll second that!
The Sierra Club likes the ARC tunnel, that should give Mr. Christie pause.
Why would NJ want to fund a project for NJ residents to commute to NYC to work??? Hopefully Christie will turn things around and business will continue to expand in Newark, Chilltown, Hoboken, &c. and payroll tax revenues can remain here and not in the filthy cesspool across the Hudson.
They already have ferries. It was ferries that made those rescues when Sully Sullenberger went down in the Hudson.
Then ferries are good! :p
This project would take 9 years to complete. Given the rapid advancements in technology, I think in a decade from now you will see much larger numbers of people telecommuting. I personally believe that ridership on mass transit into NY City will actually start to go down over time, not up.
“This project would take 9 years to complete. Given the rapid advancements in technology, I think in a decade from now you will see much larger numbers of people telecommuting. I personally believe that ridership on mass transit into NY City will actually start to go down over time, not up.”
One more thing to think about - a dirty-bomb type in NYC will pretty much make it a no-man’s land. The era of concentrating huge numbers of people in one place, at least in this country, is likely to end soon. It’s only a matter of time.
NO THANK YOU
Or America. American taxpayers are paying for Ted Kennedy's "lasting legacy". Not just the taxpayers of Boston or Massachusetts.
Exactly. Christie said NO to the teachers then he took Fed money for them. IMHO, no difference at all.
It’s all our money and I don’t care to enrich the teachers’ unions.
Thanks, for posting the pic, GOP_Lady!
We love GOP men in suits! :-)
New Jersey would be better off, and would be cheaper, if the ferry system was expanded. Maybe with fast hovercraft.
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