build things that will be helpful later that will make transportation easier and business easier in the future, the salience of that idea did not die in the last great depression. same idea made sense, made this particular kind of sense in the second american depression. that ended at the end of the bush presidency with the collapse of the financial sector. what you re looking at here are pictures from the groundbreaking in november 2009 for the largest public works project in the country at that time. in the midst of the economic collapse that we are in the middle of in 2009, that collapse in private sector employment, this was the groundbreaking for the first major expansion in generations for the most densely populated part of the country. right now there is one, count them, one train tunnel into new york city from new jersey. one tunnel, two tracks. it s 100 years old. it s been at maxed out capacity for a very long time. that groundbreaking you saw footage of us to build a second
the dispatcher tells the man we ll do our best but has to note the emergency crew headed to the man, is delayed in ft. lee. one of the mornings of the traffic jam, early morning 911 call from a nursing home about an elderly woman who fell and cut her face. dispatcher says at 6:20 a.m., she s been waiting for over an hour. again, we re trying to obtain some of these recordings ourselves, but that s what associated press is reporting tonight. in addition to the new reporting tonight, there s the puzzle of the unexpected reference in the new subpoenas that have gone out this week to something basically nobody had been connecting to the bridge lane shutdown, the older issue, the 2010 decision by christie to stop the largest public works project in the country which was already under way. he shut down construction in progress on a train tunnel into new york from new jersey in 2010. why did that stuff turn up in the subpoenas now and should we all have seen it coming? joining us now
worried about their payroll taxes going up and whatever and they ever they get the special deal. that s right, other stuff, too, if you re looking at the hurricane sandy bill which is as there s pork, and amtrak, the trains were affected by the storm, but part of that 165 million dollar is going for a train tunnel between new york and new jersey, high speed rail and nothing to do with the storm itself. there s money in sandy for members of congress whose states were affected by other storms because they needed 60 votes. so, harry reid, the majority leader in the senate needed to get some republicans and found some red state republicans who needed money from storm damage from her storms, if you dig through the bill, it s in there. nothing to do with hurricane sandy. and people are generous, when people are hurt by storms we want to help and the thing is when the members of congress slide in other things, which afforded this bill for at least a couple of bills. and they slide in and
governor christie exaggerated when he said that unforseen costs to his state were forcing him to cancel a new train tunnel between the times finding that mr. christie also misstated new jersey s share of the project s costs and while mr. christie said at the time that the agreement with the federal government would have required the state to pay for any and all cost overruns in the project, the goa report says that the federal government was, in fact, offering to share those costs. so what was the problem? well, having nixed the big tunnel project, governor christie spent the money for it, spent the tunnel money on the state s transportation trust fund. which it just so happens was almost empty at time and which it just so happens is funded by a gasoline tax, which it just so happens chris christie made a campaign promise not to raise. so how do these dots connect? killing a giant state federal infrastructure project did a couple of things for chris christie. it helped make him a fam
at the same time that is happening, governor christie is also now having to deal with a $1.5 billion corporate welfare record, which is getting more and more attention at a time he really wants to seem like a fiscal conservative. having not even served a full term as new jersey governor yet, chris christie is on the hook for having passed out a record amount of state money to corporations, $1.5 billion. and then there s today s bombshell in the new york times. news that the reasons chris christie gave at the time for unilaterally killing the biggest public works project in the country might not have been real reasons. and this is based on findings from a government accountability office report, a bipartisan, nonpartisan report that is set to be released this week. the times is reporting today that governor christie exaggerated when he said that unforeseen costs to his state were forcing him to cancel a new train tunnel between new jersey and new york. the times finding that mr. c