Like he ever had it. LOL

Seriously, I live in NJ and I am glad he stopped this. The state is in so much debt….And we really cannot be in the hole for another 2.7+ billion.

Why would anyone want to go to Newark?

plant one of his ARRA signs in front of the next Big Dig?

I bet you didn’t see that one coming, Barry. See, elections do have consequences.

the Hudson. If only they had a couple of auto tunnels,, a few bridges, some Path lines for rapid rail transit. If only.
Oh, there goes another rowboat under the waves. What is wrong with these fat cat Republicans?

are really exciting!

We’re coming for your governor, Moe. We needed his brains (in the White House). It’s the only way to stave off the coming zombie apocalypse (that’s the one where the Voting Dead put the Wicked Witch back in charge of the house and re-elect Brainiac and Zippy the Pinhead for a second term).

You have been warned. BWA-ha-ha-ha

or are not aware of the Big Dig fiasco, it was originally proposed at $2.6 billion and ended up at about $15 billion. If you add in over $7 billion in interest costs, that brings the final tab to $22 billion. One of the tunnels still leaks, and one death has been attributed to a collapsing tunnel ceiling. By the way, this was a union-only project thanks to Massachusetts mandates. The unions are killing us in more ways than one.

We built a light rail for around $1.5 billion. They did a study, and found out they could buy EACH passenger that actually rides it THREE Priuses and still have money left over.

We also happen to have the second largest budget problem in the country. Of course a Democrat mayor and Governor were responsible.

These projects are nothing but gravy trains for unions.

The rail transit systems have always and will always be a huge waste of taxpayer money.

Democrats like railroads, though, for exactly that reason: tremendous sums of taxpayer money wasted on choo-choo trains.

All I could think about when I first heard this story was The Simpsons Monorail episode.

Monorail Monorail Monorail…

Big time pork and cost overruns, IN EVERY CASE. And I never saw one system that met projected use or projected revenues.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-07-22/news/despite-draconian-budget-cuts-dart-continues-to-put-on-a-happy-face/

So I thought of him again a week ago when DART started doing the pockets-inside-out pantomime—shocked and dismayed to find that it must slash 300 jobs, cut service on all of its rail and bus lines and bring to a squealing halt almost all of its capital program to build new rail lines in the region—the lines that are on the drawing board but not under construction yet.

And that’s what will happen if the agency’s more optimistic projections prove true. DART staff has informed the DART board of directors that if certain less optimistic projections prove right, the damage and the cuts will be twice as bad.

Most of the money DART operates on is from sales tax revenues. The fares paid by passengers amount to barely six percent of the budget. More than 75 percent comes from a one-percent sales tax that you pay on every single item you buy within the DART service area. The rest of it pretty much comes from your income taxes.

Sales tax money is DART’s life-blood. Buy a new car for 18 grand, you just paid DART $180.

Remember that only two years ago DART had to reveal it had been over-optimistic about the cost of its current building campaign. By how much? In that case DART was over-optimistic by 100 percent.

They had told the public the cost of completing new rail lines already under construction would be only $1 billion. As it turned out, it was two. Billion.

Chris Christie rocks…and hasn’t forgotten that the original tunnels (still in use) were built entirely with PRIVATE money. Oh, and that private money also paid for the original Penn Station at the same time.

Great job today by our governor, finally someone looking out for the tax payer. Why should New jersey be on the hook for the billions in overrun cost, we could forget any help from NY because they are in worst shape then we are. Christie is doing a great job here, the unions hate him but theres more of us regular people out here then them so whos next, Go get them GOV……Just a ballot note for those in NJ, Constitutional amendment basically saying that the unemployment insurance fund and disabilty fund can no longer be raided for other crap and pet projects the money can soley be used for unemployment and disabilty only.. make sure it gets a yes vote

… I had wanted it but not for the price. I congratulate our wonderful Governor for his stalwart actions on behalf of fiscal discipline.

As I indicated in a comment on the Newark Examiner’s site, no one involved in this project made any attempt to give the public a line-by-line cost estimate – it’s always been expected that this will just be another empty tax revenue hole we can shovel money into, while our union friends rake in the dough for the next ten to fifteen years (who knows, maybe it’ll last longer than that!).

We do need more capacity going into New York Penn Station, but we need to do it economically. Might I point out that the existing rail tubes, all of them, were bought and paid for with private investment? And that, due to overregulation, overtaxation and union strangulation of the railroad industry as a whole, private investment, until those problems are remidied, is likely to run far away from any future railroad projects, no matter how many tax breaks get tossed their way?

You want a tunnel? Break up, de-fund and privatize Amtrak, de-regulate the railroad industry, remove any kind of taxes on rail lines, railroad equipment, railroad companies and so forth, and MAYBE things will start to pick up again!

Miracles never cease. Even libs are starting to see the light.

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