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Make A List Of Priorities. Put This At The Top
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How can something be so important to American infrastructure yet nobody can agree to fix it? I'm talking about the Portal Bridge, which you might not know by name but which might be the problem point for the entire rail system in the Northeast: It's the 100-year-old bridge between Newark and Manhattan, and every Amtrak and NJ Transit train heading into and out of New York has to cross it. It's also old, and is a swing bridge -- it opens for barge traffic. So it's a delay point, it's structurally in need of replacement, and nobody seems to want to do it. New Jersey does, and Chris Christie, who controversially pulled the state out of a project for a new tunnel for trains into New York, says he'd kick in a lot of money for it. But it would cost $900 million, and they can't agree on that. So, are we gonna wait until a tragedy occurs before we replace that thing? (New York Times)
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