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Originally Posted by Crawford
Once the buffoon, anti-transit Gov. Christie leaves, there has to be a long-term plan to PATH upgrades and expansion. Newark Airport needs to be a starting point, not the end- goal. I would expand PATH to Plainfield, as was planned in the 1970s.
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Along those lines, here is an interesting tidbit buried in
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/07/jersey_city_oks_residential_development_on_old_puc.html"]this article[/URL]:
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City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill confirmed the city hopes to get a PATH stop at the site.
"While we know it probably won't happen in the next year, we are hopeful that the next governor will commit the dollars towards a PATH stop," Morrill said.
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Incidentally, there is a good chance that the next governor of NJ will be Morrill's boss, current Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop.
As far as the highways are concerned, I'd say our state has spent enough multi-billions on highway boondoggles during Christie's term, with little improvement in congestion (and much sprawl) to show for it. The Turnpike is what, 12 lanes now in some places? And as soon as you build these highways, you see the farms and woods around them turned into new traffic-generating ugly subdivisions almost immediately. Transportation funds are limited. It's more efficient to spend them on improving transit in the dense areas of the state. A mile of double-track PATH in Hudson County carries more people than 20 miles of 4-lane highways out in Monmouth county.