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Re: From the Department of Thank Goodness It Didn’t Happen: the Jamaica Bay seaport |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Jul 13 14:34:15 2025, in response to Re: From the Department of Thank Goodness It Didn’t Happen: the Jamaica Bay seaport, posted by Peter Rosa on Sun Jul 13 14:03:22 2025. What’s the real issue is that the extremely parochial mindset of so many New Yorkers renders them unable/unwilling to realize that New Jersey is *right next door* and not impossibly remote. I have no idea if that ever can be changed.It's only a real issue when New Yorkers (whether elected New York officials or private business people) make counterproductive economic decisions based on that mindset. Yes, that happens. But you don't make a convincing argument that it happens a lot. Consider the classic example: thousands of trucks per day could be removed from the LIE if only there were a freight yard somewhere on Long Island that could handle an entire full-length freight train of containers. Such a train could make a non-stop trip from NJ via the Selkirk Bridge without ever having to stop in Selkirk Yard. Why is there no such yard? It's nothing to do with New Jersey. The NIMBYs wouldn't accept trains coming from Brooklyn either. |
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