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NJ Transportation chief says better analysis needed to decide if mega projects make sense
PHILADELPHIA — The man who’s defended the Christie administration’s decision to kill the second Hudson River rail tunnel project has become a transportation rock star.
Transportation Commissioner James Simpson has been a panelist at two major transportation forums in New York, in November, and most recently, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Thursday.
The debate always comes around to that tunnel project and Simpson defends his boss’s decision in plain talk — the state couldn’t afford it and it wasn’t the right project.