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Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Aug 17 09:12:55 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by WillD on Sun Aug 16 20:19:15 2015. A new trans-Hudson commuter rail tunnel exists solely for the benefit of NYC. Without easy access to midtown Manhattan jobs will simply move to surrounding suburban office parks.According to the 2013 Hub Bound Report, only 86,000 people came into Manhattan's CBD used suburban or commuter rail through Penn Sta. More commuters used: private cars - 115,000; bus - 192,000; PATH - 116,000. The total number of people entering the CBD from the NJ corridor was 524,000. The total number of people entering the CBD from all corridors was 3,800,000. The number of NJ commuters using Penn Sta represents 2.2% of all the commuters into the CBD. NYC needs to buck up and pay their fair share of the tunnels that manifestly benefit their economy. A better argument could be made for new rail tunnels being necessary for NYC's financial bell being, if NJ commuters paid income tax to NYC. They don't. They do pay NYS income tax. So, NYS does have a financial incentive to providing money to building the new tunnels to protect its income stream. NYC's interest would be best served by increasing its resident population because it does not derive income tax revenue from commuters. There's plenty of available land in eastern Queens, southeast Brooklyn and Staten Island. It has not been developed because these areas lack decent rail transit. Expanding the subway system to these areas should be NYC's priority. |
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