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Christie, Cuomo plot out transit plans as ‘summer of hell’ looms

Ridgewood Train Station

file photo by ArtChick

By DANA RUBINSTEIN and RYAN HUTCHINS

05/23/2017 05:41 PM EDT

As New York and New Jersey residents continue to grapple with the region’s ailing mass transit system, Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie on Tuesday stood before reporters on opposite sides of the Hudson River and, in dueling press conferences, explained how they planned to deal with the crisis.

Both said riders on NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road trains should expect, as Christie put it, “a summer of hell.”

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/05/23/christie-cuomo-plot-out-penn-station-plans-as-summer-of-hell-looms-112280