Author: Joseph M. Clift


  • NJT Board Members: Wake Up!

    Portal North Bridge Is Out of Money Already! Stop the presses, NJ Transit Board members, please wake up! The $1.56 billion Portal North Bridge construction contract you approved unanimously at a special meeting last Oct. 12 is a whopping $340 million (28%) over the $1.22 billion contract cost in the PNB Project capital budget! The…

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  • Use It or Lose It?

    From our September/October 2010 Railgram newsletter  How the ARC Project Can Be “Right-sized” into the Moynihan/Penn Station First Alternative Can the currently planned Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project, which would build a dead-end deep-cavern terminal 20 stories (181’) beneath 34th Street in Manhattan, be right-sized into rail advocates’ Moynihan/Penn Station First alternative, which…

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