Lol your history is just you bitching at younger people for trying to progress in life. You’re LITERALLY a shining boomer example

Most projects are designed with a 10% to 20% contingency; not 200%. The original was ABSOLUTELY half-baked and it should have been canceled since NJ would have been left holding the bag.

Now that the feds are ponying up more, it is not a win in Phil Murphy's column. Had the Federal government stepped up before, you're right, it would have been done by now.

An even better plan would be to invest in a fully integrated mass transit system instead of relying on highways that only have a lifespan of 20 years.

Lol. Seems like you’re projecting and weee but angry.

Grandpa need his nap?

Also I own my own home cause ya know. I’m not a simp looking to pick fights on the net with my free time

LOL, blaming Christie - get real - no project in NY/NJ metro area runs on or near budget. As soon as they start digging, environmental will crop up and then union issues will occur. This one will also probably double by its end.

When I was young, I used to have a nightmare where I was in the back of our family's conversion van. While going over the Ben Franklin bridge, I would fall through the van, the bridge, and towards the dark water below. Right before impact, I would wake up from that wierd sudden drop sensation.

yes I was there during the summer, was pretty gross, not sure why anyone would want to spend a day drinking in there but it was filled with empty beer cans

Completely agree that he single-handedly destroyed NJ Transit. It will take another decade or two before it gets back to where it should be, never mind the havoc at the Turnpike Authority and Port Authority. The man was a destroyer of worlds.

But, he had a solid point on the entire ARC program.

He repeated that ad nauseam, people still parrot that phrase.

And this dipshit wants to be president now. Good luck with that.

exactly

by holding out there are now fed funds in play

Thousands of people lost their jobs over his cancellation. Engineers, surveyors, geotechs. He didn’t campaign on this either. He did it to preserve his status for a future presidential run. The project would have created 10k permanent jobs and fully funded the state pension system. A lot of ground work had already been done. He also ran on the promise of same sex marriage, which is why a lot of people voted for him that would typically not vote republican. He immediately flip flopped on that promise. He defunded NJ transit hurting mostly the elderly, and disabled. He lost rare federal dollars on both infrastructure and education. He had very few accomplishments that have been overshadowed by his failures.

with a better design and more things included though.

I'm an old guy. In my experience this would be a career killer, but today this could be a career game changer. Time will tell ... like the old saying 1 door closes :-)

Thanks! Are you from the area? have you taken taken the trains before? Wondering realistically how long it takes to get to NYC.

its the wind farms.

classic NY and NYC they wanted something built, someone else to pay for it and get the financial benefits themselves. just like East Side Access. 3 times the original estimates which were a lie and now they are trying to get congestion pricing to pay the bonds for that

Christie didn't replace the Corzine project with any tunnel development at all. Whatever you think about Corzine's plan, Christie's subsequent action was short-sighted because whatever the budget is, it only goes up as we move forward in time.

Christie in fact strangled the NJT operating budget to the point at which it could no longer run a full schedule of trains. They didn't have enough crew and functioning rolling stock.

The tunnels have to be replaced for the state's economy to continue to prosper. The only thing more expensive than getting it done now is trying to replace it on an emergency basis after something really goes wrong.

Bedminster and Bridgewater are both great options.

There is a lot more housing stock in Bridgewater, the schools are a lot larger and taxes seem to be a bit higher than Bedminster.

Bedminster has smaller schools and one of the lowest property tax rates to assessed value I have seen in the state.

Can't really go wrong with either for family friendly communities.

I didn't know there was a second one. Where is the other one? Just further down the path?

Sorry, but this was annoying showboating by Murphy and the Dems. They knew it would be knocked down. It was like the right wing nuts in the House repealing Obamacare 500 times.

Our laws are strict, and I'm fine with that. Making them egregious is not helpful.

He used the funds a few different places including dumping insane cash into the Pulaski Skyway, the wisdom of which, could be a separate and equally galling discussion

Which ended up being raised anyway

Exactly. There were projections that it would be triple and possibly quadruple what the initial estimates were.

Lmao you are a fan of poorly researching issues at the very least

Your parroting propaganda please research