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Swordsmyth
04-09-2019, 12:50 AM
The Gateway Program is a transportation project intended to fix the crumbling infrastructure (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-largest-city-facing-monumental-subway-crisis-224037402.html) carrying roughly 200,000 daily of commuters between New Jersey and New York through the Hudson River Tunnel. The project’s inception (https://www.nj.com/news/2011/02/nj_senators_to_announce_new_co.html) in 2011 arose as a means to replace the “Access to the Region’s Core” tunnel project that was canceled by then-N.J. Governor Chris Christie.
The Obama administration agreed it would cover half of the costs of the $30-billion project, with the remaining half would be split between the New York and New Jersey state governments. But the deal fell apart after Trump was elected, and according (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/nyregion/amtrak-derailment-nj-transit.html) to the New York Times, the president denied there ever was an agreement.

The Trump administration’s most recent budget proposal includes no money (https://www.amny.com/transit/trump-budget-gateway-tunnel-1.28393510) for the project. Bloomberg recently reported (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/lawmakers-demand-answers-from-chao-on-gateway-project-review), citing a Transportation Department spokesperson, that the Hudson Tunnels project "remains ineligible for federal funding because local authorities haven’t committed sufficient funds to the project." The spokesperson also asserted that the Hudson Tunnel application “has not provided documentation demonstrating that even 30 percent of the design has been completed.”

More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ny-nj-tunnel-project-trump-192623246.html

AngryCanadian
04-09-2019, 03:07 AM
There seems to be a trillion for Israel and Pentagon but no funds for America's crumbling infrastructure.