So What Is the Deal With The Governor And This New Gateway Project Report?
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The Big Dog thinks he knows the best plan for an essential, but long-stalled, rail project. What is he doing?
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Amtrak
Report: We Really Need to Divert Money from Drivers to Transit Users
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The federal government needs an entirely different way of funding transportation — one that would finally allocate billions of dollars that currently subsidize and encourage driving to fund and expand transit, a new report argues.
Op-Ed: A Better Plan Than Cuomo’s $8B Penn Station Annex
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The governor would disrupt Midtown in order to enlarge the station. "Through-running" would enable us to avoid that — and provide one-seat rides around the tri-state.
Feds Must Fix Hudson River Tunnel Before Catastrophic Failure Cripples New York
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The Regional Plan Association estimates that a failure of the tunnel would cost billions to the New York region and send home values plummeting.
Integrated Planning Can Help Free New York Transit From Dependence on Trump
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The New York region can’t count on Washington to fund its transit mega-projects.
What the Amtrak 501 Derailment Says About America’s Failure to Prevent Train Crashes
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While the investigation is just beginning, initial reports indicate that the train entered a tight curve at too high a speed.