Transportation
The Sorry State of the New York-New Jersey Public Transit Connection
The two states desperately need a new link — but with every new plan comes a new problem.
A few days ago, New York City released a report showing the feasibility of a plan to extend the subway system across the Hudson River and into New Jersey [PDF]. The proposal — which would connect a new 7 train station in Manhattan with a rail terminal in Secaucus — would carry 128,000 riders a day. Mayor Bloomberg called the plan a "promising potential solution" to a "serious and urgent" problem.
No sooner did that call go out than the MTA, the city's subway authority, put a serious damper on this solution's potential, saying the project was not "an economically viable idea."