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Say what you will about Dave Colon — and, believe us, Amtrak’s Andrew Byford, is saying plenty — but he is hip to the potential that President Trump’s renovation of Penn Station is one of the great grifts of our age.
Sure, we’ll get a nice-looking edifice, but a lot of oligarchs are going to likely to get very rich (looking at you James Dolan, Steve Roth and Halmar International) and we may not get a station that can take advantage of the doubled capacity once the Gateway Tunnels are done.
Meanwhile, we also have a report today about how much more traffic Waymo taxis cause compared to human-driven cabs.
Plus we report on state lawmakers who are sick of Attorney General Letitia James sitting on the sidelines as illegal e-motors continue to be sold
Transportation Alternatives has called for a “die-in” outside City Hall this coming Wednesday amid impatience with the city’s slow progress toward eliminating traffic deaths after hit-and-run drivers killed killed three cyclists in the span of three days last week.