Construction was killed, though, by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican with national aspirations. President Donald Trump has stymied a second proposal. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo calls a new tunnel America’s most-needed infrastructure project.
-- By now, New York City’s western suburbs were supposed to be reveling in soaring home prices, cleaner air and swift access to thousands of jobs, all made possible by an additional train tunnel linking New Jersey to Manhattan.
“What we should be doing right now is having honest discussions,” said Representative Peter King, a 14-term Republican from Long Island, New York, who co-sponsored the measure. “The time is really over to have people in Washington -- and basically in the administration -- just sort of standing back and being critical or ignoring the reality.’’Asked whether there is a contingency plan, the U.S. Transportation Department would only say it doesn’t comment on pending legislation.
Then there’s the disaster scenario: A flood, like the one from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that bathed the tunnel in corrosives, closes the link instantly -- potentially permanently -- stopping about 200,000 daily passenger trips on Amtrak and NJ Transit commuter trains. That path is crucial to the Boston-to-Washington route traveled by more than a third of Amtrak passengers.
That leaves New York Waterway, the Weehawken, New Jersey-based ferry operator that accommodated 288,000 train passengers displaced by Penn Station track repairs for eight weeks in 2017. Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, questioned Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao during a Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday about why the tunnel and Portal Bridge projects were among only four of 53 in the Capital Investment Grants Program to get less than a “medium” rating.
“We don’t build this, and these tunnels fail, the whole economy will collapse,” U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, told transportation planners in December 2016. “There will be a deep recession in the New York metropolitan area and probably in the whole country.”
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