Build the Donald J. Trump Tunnel. NYT editorial
'A silly fight over vital infrastructure has gone off the rails. Let’s make a deal.
Last year when President Trump visited Mount Vernon, the plantation home of the country’s first president, he remarked that the founding father had missed a golden opportunity.
“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Mr. Trump said, according to news reports. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”
If the president wants to be remembered for something that would help make the country great again, how about the proposed rail tunnel under the Hudson River, one of the most important and urgently needed transportation infrastructure projects in the country?
The project includes numerous regional rail upgrades, including the construction of a new tunnel and the refurbishment of the existing tunnel. That tunnel, opened in 1910, carries more than 800,000 passenger trips per day between New Jersey and New York.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-gateway-tunnel.html?
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The project was well underway when Chris Christie backed out and sent all the money to casinos in Atlantic City. We'd already moved a potter's field in Secaucus, NJ of over 4,000 souls for the train station that was to be built on the NJ side. I'm sure it will all be much cheaper nearly 20 years later.
