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As of now, Chris Christie is not backing down on his willingness to end the NJ-NY rail tunnel project:
“I don’t want to hear about the jobs it will create. If I don’t have the money for the payroll, it will not create the jobs,” Christie said. “This is not a difficult decision for me.” With a $3 billion federal commitment, the ARC tunnel project from New Jersey to Manhattan is intended to double NJ Transit’s in-bound capacity of 46,000 passengers during rush hour. Proponents say the tunnel would also take cars off the road, create jobs and raise property values.
The project was initially priced at $8.7 billion, with a $3 billion commitment from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the remaining $2.7 billion pledged by New Jersey under former Gov. Jon Corzine.
Christie killed the project on Oct. 7 after saying the real cost would be at least $11 billion, and that state taxpayers would be on the hook for the rest. The next day, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood convinced Christie to wait two weeks to explore funding options.
“Every person who has criticized this decision, ask them a follow-up” Christie told reporters at the Statehouse today. “How would you pay for it? I can’t write the check if there is no money in the account.”
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ncatty| 10.18.10 @ 2:51PM
Every time Christie makes statements like this I get a thrill up my leg!
Big Java| 10.18.10 @ 3:19PM
Amen
Margie| 10.18.10 @ 8:51PM
Haha. Love it.
Bob| 10.19.10 @ 11:10AM
Governor Christie blinked. He has "reconsidered" his opposition to the tunnel. Additional funding is possible including from the New Jersey taxpayers. Do you still have a thrill up your leg? Tee Hee!
Mad Hatter| 10.18.10 @ 3:47PM
Says Christie, "Though my share's just a quarter,
With cost overruns, we can't afford 'er!
We'll no longer funnel,
State funds to a tunnel,
Since Jersey is no more under water!"
Eric Cartman| 10.18.10 @ 4:09PM
If jobs came with government spending, we would need both Mexico and Canada to help us fill them. Viva AmeriCanExico!
Julie| 10.18.10 @ 4:47PM
He says he doesn't have the money to fund the payroll well I have a solution cut the governor's food budget in half and he will have the funds.
Eric Cartman| 10.18.10 @ 4:54PM
Or we could just cut out 1/10th of what Liberal Aholes THINK the world owes them. That would do it.
Warrior | 10.18.10 @ 5:52PM
Chris Christie works for a living. Maybe a better idea would be to cut at least half if no three quarters of the money from welfare, medicaid, section 8 and food stamps. Then those funds would be used to put people to work instead of encouraging them to stay home and thank imbeciles like you.
Bob| 10.19.10 @ 9:36AM
He works for a living? Since when did any conservative believe a public servant ever worked for a living? Just look at the latest polls, conservatives said government workers are overpaid do nothings. Is Governor Christie an overpaid do nothing at the state level? He's overweight I will grant you that.
CalMark| 10.18.10 @ 6:29PM
Nasty, nasty. Catty, catty.
The all-purpose liberal response to everything.
"There's no money," says Christie. I echo that.
Tell us benighted, ignorant, fact-watching conservatives, all-knowing Lefite Julie: Where you gonna get the money? Even if Christie spends $1000 a month on food, cutting that in half is 6 grand a year which is still...oh, a few bucks shy of the billions needed.
blackwatch| 10.19.10 @ 12:11AM
all Julie was really saying is:
wah----wahhhhh---wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Hey Julie---The Governor buys his own food. That's why he gets a paycheck.
Pay for your own damn tunnel. I am sick of east coasters wanting everyone to pay for their fuc*ing trains. Pay for your own damn roads and stop screwing the rest of the country.