re: #216 wilburs

The Hudson River tunnels didn’t flood. The East River tunnels did.

Christie killed the ARC project because NJ would take the brunt of cost overruns and NY would get all benefits but no cost sharing. Even the feds wouldn’t go along with covering the cost overruns. NJ Transit was responsible for overseeing the tunnel project, but everyone conceded that there would be huge cost overruns - the feds made specific reference to fact that NJ transit had no mechanism in place to contain costs.

Sandy showed that NJ transit couldn’t be trusted with infrastructure or its rail fleet. Christie made the right decision on that front, and Amtrak subsequently came up with a superior plan in Gateway that will expand commuter rail access to Manhattan, plus give real high speed rail access - separating Amtrak HSR and local commuter trains that share the same right of way.