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

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26. Questions About The Tunnel...

dead-ending deep under Macy's in NYC were legitimate concerns. The plan in place was a product of the Bush Administration no wanting to fund the project as a part of Amtrak. It left NJ to its own devices. Frank Lautenberg was able to secure matching federal funds for the ARC project and NJ decided to move forward . Chrisite came in after some work had already been started, saw the pot of money and the flaws in the project and took advantage. A more progressive Obama administration came in and proposed the Gateway Tunnel. A true through tunnel that would increase capacity on the NE Corridor in a meaningful way. The ARC money could easily have been re-purposed. This is where the true intent of Christie is revealed. It was grabbing a pot of infrastructure long-term capital money and using it on short term budget fixes to make him look good at the expense of future generations and tens of millions of people.