Steampowered wrote:People are going to leave NJ in droves now. The transportation fund was sacked, and they ran out of money to steal something else. There was no excuse for this last accident If anything it just prove the legislators incompetence.
Quite the contrary. Sales taxes were lowered and estate tax was removed. NJ transit needs to cut wasteful spending and fund improvents into existing system going forward. Newer locomotives and train sets from late 90s and newer equipped with positive train control along with existing expenditures and projects for NJ Transit.
LIRR has the newest set of replacement cars due in. NJ Transit fleet is older and has really old rebuilt locomotives and train cars which are past their useful lives. They need to procure an order of new train sets to replace the oldest in the fleet.
The Bill needs to be signed by Governor Christie and put in place for funding on November 1st.
I think NJ transit needs smart growth where it is absolutely needed. Secaucus Junction fortunately was up even when Hoboken went down which was built after Hoboken and now has more passengers. Hoboken will get repaired and half will be open on Monday.
No one is going to leave NJ over this crash. In fact the state will be in a lot better shape going forward.