Passenger Trains > DOT Secy Foxx: Hudson River tunnel is necessary

Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx issued another plea for the Amtrak + NJ Transit tunnel under the Hudson  River.  The project, which wil include new tubes and approach tracks / capacity improvements etc has been bogged down in political and funding matters.U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx calls delays in building a new rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York "a poster child for what's wrong" in trying to build public works projects.In an interview in The Hill, a Washington newspaper that covers Congress, Foxx said he hoped to make the Gateway tunnel a success story rather than the problem it is now.
(Of course, his predecessor, Ray "it's a jobs program" LaHood could have called Christie's bluff by agreeing to share in cost over runs on the low budget construction plan begun by Jon Corzine.  But, LaHood chose not to. He had other places to spend money...)

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