By The Post Editorial Board; New York Post; March 18, 2019
With Team Trump blocking funds for a new cross-Hudson train tunnel, it’s time for New York and New Jersey officials to draw up a Plan B.
The latest blow came Friday, with word that the administration ranks the tunnel a “medium-low” priority among national projects, making it ineligible for Capital Investment Grants from the Federal Transit Administration. And Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen has made clear that neither the funding bill Trump signed last month nor his 2020 budget earmarks cash for the so-called Gateway tunnel.