By The Editorial Board, New York Daily News; April 4, 2019
On Monday, hours after becoming MTA chief, Pat Foye said of the revolutionary approach to repairing the L-train using cable racking: “I think that the old L train plan represented a colossal, collective failure of imagination because it provided for building, as the Daily News editorial pages noted, with respect to the L train and Gateway, if I’m characterizing it properly, building a 1915 tunnel today doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
“The governor, in what I think was a wonderful turn of phase, took Gen. Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex phrase from the 50s and turned it into what I believe exists, but I never really thought about it as a phrase: the transportation-industrial complex. I think that complex is real.