Of course, I'm pissed that TSF canceled federal funding for the Gateway Project.

[no_hypocrisy]

It's not discretionary; it's mandatory b/c the present tunnel has an expected lifespan of maybe another decade before it's useless for trains to go between NJ and NYC under the Hudson River. It would greatly reduce the traffic on the bridges and the other tunnels.

TSF first stopped the funding in 2016. This is his second attempt to stop the project.

Joe Biden re-appropriated the funds and the project was finally started.

But I'm also pissed at Chris Christie, former republican governor of NJ. The federal money was allocated and transferred to NJ to build Gateway. Before the first shovel was in the ground, in 2010, Christie unilaterally canceled the project, and kept the federal dollars and allocated them to other NJ transportation projects. Essentially he embezzled the money as it should have been returned to D.C. when he canceled the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Program_(Northeast_Corridor)

[elleng]

1. Disagreements about this critical project been happening forever.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. How to make working links. ... (tRump hates his home city.)

To get links like that to work, you need to substitute the parentheses and other characters that sometimes appear such as hash marks. It's a bit technical, but you look up "ascii parenthesis" and choose the unicode or hex value. Here's a good link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

In particular, substitute %28 for ( and %29 for ).

There ASCII URL encoders and decoders, but they tend to encode colons and sometimes the slashes so they don't work too well.

https://www.url-encode-decode.com/ produces:
https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGateway_Program_%28Northeast_Corridor%29

https://ascii.cl/url-encoding.htm produces:
https%3A//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Program_%28Northeast_Corridor%29

You might use them and maybe save a little time or trouble by just replacing the %3A with the colon, which is easy to remember since it is near the front and we've seen thousands of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Program_%28Northeast_Corridor%29

[MerryBlooms]

3. Oregon is about to get walloped too. I got a project basically

Out my front door, not supposed to be done for at least another year or so, and now who knows. Oregon and all blue states, getting the shit stick from trump.

[MerryBlooms]

4. Lol, trump cronies were chatting about sending 82nd airborne into Portland

Hit them tent city Saturday Markets! Omg, someone might be selling jam, pickles, weed!!!

[Arazi]

5. If Mike Sherrill can't run with this, then she's hopeless

That NJ Governor’s race was close but this issue alone should give her a huge boost.

Vow to fight for it