A new study found that more people are expected to commute from New Jersey over the next decade, meaning that the packed commutes across the Hudson River,.
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Andrew Yang is selling himself as an ideas man.
But more than once now on the trail he’s offered up notions that landed with a deafening thud.
Transportation watchers we talked to said arguments against mayoral control of the city trains have only become more pronounced since the 2017 “Summer of Hell.” The idea was championed by Council Speaker Corey Johnson now running for city comptroller who was plotting his own mayoral run at the time.
NEW YORK It was almost two years into President Donald Trump’s term when Gov. Andrew Cuomo descended beneath the Hudson River to tour the decrepit rail tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey.
In a video he would later send to the White House, Cuomo made one plea: fund the Gateway project, a $13 billion proposal to build a new crossing under the river and repair the existing tunnels, which were severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
“It is probably the critical infrastructure issue facing not just New York and New Jersey, but literally the entire Northeast,” Cuomo said in the video, which did nothing to remove Trump’s blockade of the project.