By Alex Mitchell, Bronx Times; December 15, 2018
“Don’t be a scrooge, Amtrak” said our Santa-hat wearing Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. while collecting petition signatures at the Mall at Bay Plaza on Friday, December 7; calling on the East Coast transit goliath to get on board with Metro North Railroad’s planned expansion into the east Bronx.
During the process of collecting over 2,000 signatures for a region of the borough Diaz referred to as a ‘transit starved’, he went about explaining the cause of the project’s hold up.
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