Passenger Trains > Is the federal share of the Hudson River tunnel a mirage?

The President recently spoke of the need to update and upgrade highways, pipelines, bridges and railroads. And, promised a trillion dollars to help make that a reality.  Public Radio station WNYC examines the plan, and believes there is no there, there.  Nobody in charge, no idea whether DOT or Commerce or some other agency is in charge. Nobody spear heading the funding, or permit running.  The people who've pushed the plan (Schumer, Booker, and their crew) haven't heard a word.  Usually, in political projects, the fix is in early. Bond underwriters know they're getting the work, engineering has rough estimates in play, politicians have let construction firms and unions know the work is in the pipeline, etc.  Nada.

Speaker Paul Ryan has long spoken against wasteful federal infrastructure. The Obama-era give aways on corridor spending were a particular target of his.

So, is this a mirage? Soon to be lost in across the board cuts in spending?

Red signals ahead?

My crystal ball is foggy.  Too many distracting Tweets, I guess.

So if you want speculation, what is the business case for the richest 1% of the USA?

Brian



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/17 14:50 by choodude.

We can spend a lot of time and money on booze trying to figure trump out. GOP controls purse strings and remember what Richards some GOP congressmen were after Sandy. Trump wants to be everyone's buddy but it looks like he has run into the proverbial brick wall of DC. NE region better start finding cheapest method(s) to fix things because the well is running dry. NO TUNNEL FOR YOU!!

The administration is less than sixty days old with almost 3000 days to go. What's the rush?

It will take at least 3000 days to tunnel between Alaska and Siberia so better get digging! 



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Lurch_in_ABQ Wrote:
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> The administration is less than sixty days old with almost 3000 days to go. What's the rush?

The rush is the GOP said "NO" to everything for the last 8 years (it's documented with interviews with eric cantor) and they campaigned on "we will fix it when we have the WH."  So now it's time to put up!!!

elu34ch Wrote:
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> Lurch_in_ABQ Wrote:
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> -----
> > The administration is less than sixty days old
> with almost 3000 days to go. What's the rush?
>
> The rush is the GOP said "NO" to everything for
> the last 8 years (it's documented with interviews
> with eric cantor) and they campaigned on "we will
> fix it when we have the WH."  So now it's time to
> put up!!!

How many things did Harry Reid stop from even getting to a vote? He had 6 of those 8 years. Two of 6 were with control of the House, Senate and Presidency. Funny, I thought Reid was a Democrat!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/17 20:37 by NYSWSD70M.

It's all a giant smokescreen. No money except for the top 1%.


Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> The President recently spoke of the need to update
> and upgrade highways, pipelines, bridges and
> railroads. And, promised a trillion dollars to
> help make that a reality.  Public Radio station
> WNYC examines the plan, and believes there is no
> there, there.  Nobody in charge, no idea whether
> DOT or Commerce or some other agency is in charge.
> Nobody spear heading the funding, or permit
> running.  The people who've pushed the plan
> (Schumer, Booker, and their crew) haven't heard a
> word.  Usually, in political projects, the fix is
> in early. Bond underwriters know they're getting
> the work, engineering has rough estimates in play,
> politicians have let construction firms and unions
> know the work is in the pipeline, etc.  Nada.
>
> Speaker Paul Ryan has long spoken against wasteful
> federal infrastructure. The Obama-era give aways
> on corridor spending were a particular target of
> his.
>
> So, is this a mirage? Soon to be lost in across
> the board cuts in spending?
>
> Red signals ahead?