The latest in the occasional series of articles recommended by Trains News Wire opens with a recent story from the Baltimore Banner looking at the B&P Tunnel, Amtrak’s efforts to maintain the 152-year-old bore, the plans to replace it, and the threats to the tunnel project.
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A Governing magazine opinion piece looks at the challenges of building infrastructure in America — citing California high speed rail and New York’s East Side Access as examples of what has gone wrong — and considers a proposal from the conservative Manhattan Institute to streamline the process.
The news site CommonWealth Beacon examines the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s upcoming decision to pick a new contract operator, and whether the contract should go to one company or consortium, or be broken up into separate deals.
Everything in government needs a rational justification and audit, since the lobbying and funding are so political. If this project is justified and funding appropriate, it will survive an examination.
There are two articles here. One is from a local Baltimore publication whose audience is people who live in Baltimore. I think that it is very interesting and has no political content. The other is clearly labeled as opinion.
The B&P Tunnel article is a know-nothing political hack job typical of “progressive” journalism. Shame on Trains for giving it a platform.
Totally 100 million percent agrere. Why can’t people see (including the you-know-who’s that post on these pages) that it was the corrupt, senile, jerk mindless communist JOE BIDEN under whose watch Amtrak has been destroyed.
Amtrak ran a whole lot better under Trump 45 than under Biden. As for Trump 47, he’s been in officer less than a month. But he will be blamed (already has been on these pages) for what Biden hath wrought.
Gosh, that first pic reminds me so much of the 4th of 4 old DLW tunnels, (left to right looking east from the west tunnel portals towards Hoboken), where winter ice would build up on our 50+ pair lead phone cable, that we had to crack off to prevent any damage. One of the tunnel end, commuter yard block operators would give us a permit to shut down RR traffic on south tunnel #4 in order to accomplish all that, preferably after morning commuter rush hour.
The 4 tunnels were all equipped with DLW’s 3000 volt DC catenary, and ran/run under the west Hudson River Palisades of Hoboken / Jersey City residential areas to the near water level ~16 track passenger yard and terminal, where commuters would transfer to/from the Hudson Tubes, aka PATH subway, to Manhatten, NYC. And the DLW ferry boats were eliminated some time in the 60s. Our telecom radio shop was located in a room in between two of the past 4-5 ferry boat slips, that sometimes got flooded from the Hudson River in stormy rainy weather.