Washington – NY, NJ Governers Meet With Trump On NYC Tunnel Project

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    Washington – President Donald Trump met with top elected officials from New York and New Jersey at the White House on Thursday over the fate of a massive infrastructure project to build a tunnel under the Hudson River critical to northeast U.S. transportation.

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    Trump met with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and top congressional officials including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer over the $24 billion “Gateway Project.”

    In July, a House panel backed an additional $900 million in new funding for the tunnel under the Hudson near New York City. The project would also repair an existing century-old tunnel before it becomes unusable in the next decade.

    A White House official said the project “will require a strong partnership” to finish it “in a cost-effective manner by streamlining the permitting process, using innovative procurement techniques, and being creative in the funding and financing of the program.”

    Failure of the lines in the current tunnel, which was heavily damaged during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, could come within a decade and would hobble commuting in a metropolitan area that produces 10 percent of the nation’s economic output.

    Construction could tie up traffic on Manhattan’s heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years and cause other disruptions. A board of trustees to oversee the program was named late last year.

    Trump plans to introduce a plan this year to spend $200 billion on infrastructure funding aimed at drawing another $800 billion in private sector investment.

    Vice President Mike Pence, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House economic advisor Gary Cohn were among those who attended the meeting.


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    grandbear
    grandbear
    6 years ago

    This won’t solve the problem of poor mass transportation .There’s simply too many cars in the city that was created in the time of the horse and buggy .There should be no parking in the streets at all .We need above ground methods of moving people quickly from place to place and delivery of goods to be at off hours.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    I like Chris Christie in a lot of ways. I will never forgive him for cancelling the tunnel project.