NYT editorial on the proposal from Cuomo and Christie to pay for 1/2 the cost of Gateway (or whatever they think should be built): Half a Tunnel Is a Good Start. Unlike the WSJ, this is not behind a paywall (until you get to 10 NYT articles in a month).
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Many issues need to be resolved. It’s welcome news that Mr. Cuomo has hopped aboard — at one point he said it was “not my tunnel,” but rather New Jersey’s and Amtrak’s. He insists he will go forward if the federal government provides, as he put it in an interview with The Times, “cash, not loans” for its half of the deal. The final agreement will almost certainly involve a complicated payment plan with contributions from all sources.
Amtrak has already spent more than $300 million to begin designing Gateway and to preserve its right of way, including underground space beneath Manhattan’s booming West Side. Eventually, however, Congress must come through in a major way, increasing funds devoted to mass transit and allowing the rerouting of some of the resources the government devotes to roads to a project of vital importance to as many as 200,000 riders a day on Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.