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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
If Summer Streets’ new security measures are here to stay, the city should replace NYPD vehicles with physical barriers, cut police staffing costs and use the investment to make the event last all weekend.