Now the New York and New Jersey congressional delegations, including Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker, will be more motivated to vote for a big Infrastructure spending bill, which includes a Border Wall.
“Losing!”
/Democrats
Say, aaren’t NY and NJ sanctuary states?
Dismantle everything the Kenyan did.
Winning.
Hey Gateway: There IS a more urgent infrastructure project than Gateway, called The Southern Border Wall. Guess you guys didn’t build a sample wall, eh?
There’s your funding for the Wall.
Boy, you can almost hear the leftist who wrote this article whining.
You wanna tunnel, I wanna wall, money
You wanna tunnel, I wanna wall, money
You wanna tunnel, I wanna wall
But your money ain’t been there at all
Money, money, money
Socialists looove them choo-choos. They have visions of their highly controlled populace spending long hours commuting to their government jobs, reading The New York Times or Washington Post, calling to each other, “What do you think of the new government infrastructure plan, comrade?”
And before each stop, the union announcer guy announces “Next stop, The Nancy Pelosey Station!”; “Next stop, the Andrew Coumo station!”....
Peasants doing what the government wants, under government control for hours every day. Calling each other “comrade” and thanking government for the marvelous choo-choo they get to spend hours on each day, every day. Under control.
That’s why they hate cars. Too much freedom!
I wonder how much federal dollars NJ and New York are already sucking up.?
Amtrak is another matter entirely, not exactly germane to this particular discussion. They inherited the northeast corridor lines from Boston to Washington, along with from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, as part of the deal that created Conrail.
What’s happened since then, IMO, is that Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania view that line as their 1:1 scale electric train set, and have put into place massive state-level bureaucracies to run it. Yes, Amtrak runs trains. But the outfits like NJ Transit, New York’s MTA, and SEPTA have added more trains into Penn Station than PRR ever ran.
That being said: the Hudson River railroad tunnel to Penn Station really is in dire need of fixing. It’s only been around 100 years since its construction. Even concrete needs maintenance.
Built that is with private funding! The Pennsylvania RR built the Hudson River Tunnels for about $3 billion (in today’s dollars). Not only that, they built it, and paid off the debt. Quite a novel idea for today!
But I think an earlier poster hit the nail right on the head. Mr. Trump says, “You wanna tunnel? Vote for my border wall. Have a nice day!”
If they like trains so much, they can get off in Newark and take PATH to New York. Or Jersey City.
As a railfan, I am torn on Amtrak. I believe Amtrak should be privatized, but I believe that we need to have long distance trains, too. Air travel is a hassle now.
The unions control Amtrak. Someone should investigate their work rules which drive up costs.
Winning! I’m not tired of it yet.
The rink was closed in 1980 for a proposed two years of renovations at $9.1 million. Six years after the problem-plagued work was still not completed by the city, Donald Trump persuaded Mayor Ed Koch to let him complete the work in four months at $3 million in order to have it open by the end of the year. Koch initially objected but later agreed. Trump finished the job in the promised four months at a final cost 25% below the budget and for no profit.
I heard Amtrak sells $9 hamburgers that cost them twice as much to produce. I also heard employees steal millions every year. If privatized all of that would change. While the government can afford such nonsense a private company would not.
Saying no to Amtrak is a drop in the bucket but a drop here and a drop there (no, to Poki-stan) adds up.
Because bridges and tunnels and roads truly care what your politics are, and that multiple political stances are involved, when they are being maintained.
SMH