An Opinion By Eric Kober, The New York Times; January 17, 2018
The people who commute into and around New York City are experiencing a harsh reality: After seven years of rapid employment growth, the city is facing multiple, potentially crippling transit problems. Record numbers of commuters are squeezing on to crowded trains on antiquated rail networks faltering after decades of underinvestment, traveling through tunnels seriously damaged by Hurricane Sandy flooding in 2012.
Instead of working with the region to fix the problem, in late December the Trump administration backpedaled on one of the big projects planned to address it, a new set of tunnels under the Hudson River. In response, officials and transportation agencies should consider going it alone and not waiting for federal funding.
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