What this article omits is that the cost of this boondoggle is $1.3 billion and climbing. So for $130,000,000 a mile, we will get what the proponents project to be 24,000 trips. At $2.25 per trip ( current light rail ticket price) assuming the projected number of rides are taken every single day of the year (a heroic assumption), it will take 65 years to pay this off, not counting interest.
The money for this comes from the newly hiked gas tax which will apparently be diverted from fixing roads and bridges to pleasing a few of Loretta’s constituents.
This is a taxpayer ripoff like you’ve never seen.
I love it. spend spend, nice,
Unions and their made men friends are going to pig out on this rip off Hudson County-style. NJ taxpayers and ratepayers are the losers. This won’t help NJ’s economy one bit and we’ll be left with the bill for the next 50 years. You watch, it will cost 2-3X the initial sanctioned amount due to change orders and mob and union meddling, and the delays and problems associated with the work will drag on for years. This will make the Boston “Big Dig” look like a sandbox.
what union has the big power in the state. the fire and police. so get your info in order my little flower. talk too the hand of power.
right,right,right,