Christie is known for his intense interest in traffic issues.
This guy is unbelievable. As in it's legitimately impossible
to believe him.
Governor Chris Christie, who killed the last, best plan for new tunnels under the Hudson River, said that he'd get additional tunnel capacity built if he were elected president.
"If I am president of the United States, I call a meeting between the president, my secretary of transportation, the governor of New York, and the governor of New Jersey and say, ‘Listen if we are all in this Even Steven, if we are all going to put in an equal share then let’s go build these tunnels under the Hudson River,'" he said in a taped interview with Larry Kudlow that will air on WABC on Saturday.
Christie was the person who killed the last tunnel project, shunting the money to be used into other New Jersey projects. He's also been conspicuously uninterested in coming up with new plans to replace the current tunnels, despite increasingly dire circumstances; the existing tunnels are not only at the end of their lifespan, but were severely damaged by flooding during Hurricane Sandy,
resulting in escalating problems now.
For the third day in a row, electrical problems in century-old rail tunnels under the Hudson River on Wednesday stymied the commutes of tens of thousands of New Jersey Transit riders, illustrating again the shortcomings of the region’s languishing infrastructure system.
So the Chris Christie theory is that if you put him in a still-higher office, he'll be sure to get a tunnel done
this time for sure—and will somehow get a better deal for New Jersey when that isn't his job than he's been able to halfheartedly muster when it
was his job. You can definitely see why state political watchers have been warning the nation that Christie "
lies with conviction."
As for the tunnels, you might think that current Governor Chris Christie would want to get on that now. Officials who are not Chris Christie are fairly frantic about the short window of time left to replace the tunnels before they inevitably fail.
President Obama's transportation secretary said Tuesday that the region's apparent inability to do anything about the decrepit rail tunnels connecting midtown Manhattan to New Jersey is "almost criminal."
"It’s perhaps one of the—if not the—most important project in the country right now that’s not happening," federal transportation secretary Anthony Foxx said, during a panel discussion hosted by the New York Times.
So Christie says he'll get right on that, but only if you make him president first? Hmm.