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  • “Times” Letter Explains Need to Delay ARC

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    Donald Winship

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    James P. RePass, chairman of The National Corridors Initiative, in a letter published in The New York Times on October 15, explained some reasons why the ARC trans-Hudson tunnel needs to be postponed, pending redesign.  In response to a Times Op-Ed column on Oct. 8 by Paul Krugman, which decried NJ Gov. Christie’s decision to kill the tunnel (since…

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  • Tunnel Debate Continues

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    Donald Winship

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    New York MTA Chairman Jay Walder reportedly said on October 13 (at a Crain’s Business Breakfast Forum) that if New Jersey doesn’t want the $3 billion allocated for the ARC tunnel, the MTA will be looking to secure some of the funds for its own needs. (Reported on WNYC.)  Meanwhile, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) held…

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  • Gov Considering ARC Alternatives

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    Donald Winship

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    Yesterday, Gov. Christie ordered that the ARC Project, with its deep-cavern terminal, be shut down.  Today, he met with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and softened his position, agreeing to submit the issue to a study group from US DOT and NJ Transit. Still, the Governor held his ground on the cost issue.  He…

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  • Coalition Statement on Killing of ARC

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    Donald Winship

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    We agree with Gov. Christie and his administration that the ARC project as proposed was too expensive, and it was flawed.  It did not allow connectivity at Penn Station, and it could not be extended to the East Side.  The organizations representing New Jesey’s rail riders raised these issues, and we were heard and believed. New…

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  • NJ Gov Christie Kills ARC Tunnel

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    Donald Winship

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    At a 1:30 p.m. news conference on October 7, NJ Gov. Chris Christie announced that the long-planned trans-Hudson rail-tunnel construction project will be terminated; the Governor said that the original estimated cost of $8.7 billion might actually balloon to $11–14 billion, an amount that he said New Jersey could not afford.  About $600 million had…

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  • Christie Reported Ready to Kill ARC

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    Donald Winship

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    WNYC reported (Tuesday, 3 p.m.). on authority of 3 sources connected to high places in the Christie administration. that the Governor will announce later this week that the ARC tunnel project will be suspended and funding “repurposed” to highway projects.  The Governor, on the campaign trail in Chicago for GOP senatorial candidate Bill Brady, said…

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  • Legislature Reverses Course; Construction Freeze to End

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    Donald Winship

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    On Monday, October 4, as Gov. Christie’s transportation project freeze went into effect, the NJ legislature’s Joint Budget Operating Committee held an emergency meeting on the crisis, and reversed course, voting reportedly 4–1 to authorize the bond issue.  Democrats had held that such a bond issue requires voters’ approval; the Christie administration said it was…

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  • Star-Ledger Columnist Pronounces ARC Dead

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    Donald Winship

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    Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, an outspoken opponent of New Jersey Transit’s proposed deep-cavern terminal for the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Project has pronounced the project dead, at least as NJT conceives it.  In a column appearing in the edition for Sunday, October 3d, Mulshine said: “The ARC is dead.  Long live the ARC.”  He…

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  • Coalition Member Presents Coalition Position on NJN-TV

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    Donald Winship

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    Joseph M. Clift, chair of the Technical Committee of the Lackawanna Coalition, appeared on New Jersey Network on Sunday, September 26th, to present the position of the rider advocacy alliance concerning the ARC Project. Clift presented the Moynihan/Penn Station First alternative and its benefits to New Jersey’s rail riders, and concluded by inviting Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) to take the…

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  • “Christie wise to say whoa to rail tunnel, terminal” says Record columnist

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    Donald Winship

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    Bob Ingle, writing in the Daily Record, Sunday, Sept. 26, says Governor Christie’s decision to put the trans-Hudson ARC rail tunnel on hold is a wise move.  Ingle calls the plan “the rail line from Monstrosity by the Turnpike” (his term for the failed Xanadu complex) to Macy’s basement.  It would be the “third Hudson…

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