Chris Christie's Piggy Bank: The real reason Christie killed the new NY-NJ commuter tunnel (Esquire)

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21. I agree with you, but I think it's more than that. Even if evidence doesn't come to light about

his planning to shut it down prior to his election, I'll always believe that's the case. I think one of his big money donors wanted that shut down and it was part of why they supported him. He put Wildstein and Bill Blasio on the council that oversaw the report that in thirty days magically came up with numbers that Christie said flew in the face of every other report engineers had done. When he announced he was cancelling the project, six months after he had publicly backed it, he wouldn't even consider options. He finally gave LaHood two weeks, but even that was more proof that he had his plans laid out before election. He wouldn't listen to any compromises, alternatives, etc. He killed the thing. Someone wanted that project killed and it wasn't about tax revenue.