In 2009, Chris Christie’s predecessor broke ground on a fully funded, $8.7-billion project that would have created a new tunnel under the Hudson River to connect the commuter-rich suburbs of northern New Jersey with job-rich midtown Manhattan.
*Christie canceled it and the loss in monies expended along with the jobs it was producing went away. The tunnel 20yrs in the making with design, planning and actual construction went into the dumps when he pulled the plug. It left hundreds of people suddenly w/o jobs and the access to the digs boarded up. Christie put the plywood in the hole and its not easy to restart. Ny state went onto other projects to aleviate the commute.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/10/8553855/christies-other-transit-scandal-could-be-big-one
Now he suddenly is for it.
Four years after killing a $12.4 billion tunnel that would have doubled commuter capacity to Manhattan, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has endorsed another stab at rail expansion as part of a plan to remake the Port Authority.
If Christie hadn’t stopped the Access to the Region’s Core project that began in 2009, mass-transit relief would have come as soon as 2018. Now he supports an approach, with new oversight by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, that has no dedicated funding and would take at least 10 years.
Train travel garnered a brief mention last month in a 99-page report by a panel recommending fixes for the bi-state operator of regional airports, cargo docks and New York City river crossings. That’s attention enough as the transportation agency, with a $7.8 billion annual budget, tries to distance itself from a year of scandal over political patronage.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/christie-endorses-tunnel-four-years-after-killing-project
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