jerseycityfrankie t1_ix9tvjj wrote on November 21, 2022 at 9:06 PM

How’s it possible for something like this to have a budget estimate DOUBLE at the planning stage? Must have originally been cartoonishly lowballed numbers that couldn’t withstand any scrutiny. One wonders which parts of the budget were in fantasyland?

HappyArtichoke7729 t1_ixa1a7g wrote on November 21, 2022 at 9:57 PM

Simple. The goal of this isn't building roads OR reducing traffic. (It will make traffic worse)

The goal of this is to LINE POCKETS.

The turnpike extension is just an excuse to embezzle money.

doglywolf t1_ixa0odh wrote on November 21, 2022 at 9:52 PM

they added two new bridge to the project to replace Newark bay bridge ...so now you can get to the Holland tunnel entrance twice as fast where it becomes a parking lot . They must figure by getting all the cars their faster that you can probably turn your engine off for a while to wait to go in instead of slowly crawling forward .

Honestly would be better off building a new tunnel for that price - nothing like making 12 lanes of traffic go into two lanes ...or often 1 lane and instead of trying to address that bottle next they just make the middle of the bottle wider