The policy analysts at the non-political city Independent Budget Office couldn’t make heads or tails of the state’s proposed rezoning around Penn Station, and there’s a good reason why: The plan is deficient, incomplete and vague. Gov. Hochul, your predecessor Andrew Cuomo may have dropped this plan in your lap, but now it’s your election-year mess, so it’s on you to refine it and pare it back, especially a major piece that isn’t needed.
In 2018, the Legislature adopted the “Pennsylvania Station Public Safety Improvements Act,” correctly declaring Amtrak’s decrepit depot “antiquated, substandard and inadequate” presenting “an unreasonable safety risk to the public” and urging “action to repair or redevelop such facilities into safe modern, efficient facilities.” True, true and true.
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