Infrastructure Read
If Trump cuts Amtrak and other funding, the region could be facing a transportation apocalypse.
Not only is there no trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Mr. Trump is blocking projects already in the pipeline.
The task of moving people around the New York City area falls to a tangle of agencies. But when something goes awry, it’s up to Amtrak to sort it out.
The president said a New York expressway’s median was shielded by aluminum “garbage” that melts in the heat. That just isn’t true, the State Department of Transportation said.
The president discussed infrastructure, taxes and health care, and his opinions on the Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice.
Describing the plan as a legislative sweetener, the president refused to say whether it would include two New York City projects that his budget for next year would defund.
Supporters cheered a plan to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure, but the proposed budget slashes funding.
A Second Avenue subway extension and a new train tunnel under the Hudson are counting on federal funding that the president is proposing to slash.
The unpopular dam poses a daunting test for Myanmar’s leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: Going ahead with it would anger the public. Killing it would anger China.
After my accident, I learned firsthand how civic dysfunction can disenfranchise the vulnerable.
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