This is why transportation and urban policy in NYC is bass-ackward. Even projects that are widely lauded and well received get the shaft because the powers that be neglect to actually do what is necessary to light fires under the necessary parties to get things built.
The Moynihan Station should be built with all due haste, yet no one seems concerned about this project when there is a West Side Stadium to be built or Ground Zero to rebuild. The article makes it seem as though these are all related projects.
They aren't. They shouldn't.
Each stands on their own merits and each has their own funding streams. All would significantly improve the transportation and public use infrastructure for the City. All would improve existing facilities and/or expand reclamation of blighted areas (West Side Yards/Foley Post Office), and Ground Zero would be rebuilt.
Yet, the NY area politicians are more concerned about their personal power, personal gain politically, than actually getting these things built.
Why?
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