Christie’s Tunnel Move Agitates Commuters to New York
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Chris Christie got Mary Ellen Daalder’s vote for governor of New Jersey in November. His decision yesterday to kill a tunnel project meant to speed her 90-minute commute to Manhattan got him only her dismay.
Christie, a first-term Republican, pulled out of the so-called Access to the Region’s Core project, which would have created an 8.8-mile (14.2-kilometer) conduit under the Hudson River to double the number of commuter trains to New York at peak times. Christie said the initial $8.7 billion cost might have reached $14 billion and the state couldn’t afford it.