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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1388756, member: 2141"] My jaw dropped when I saw the plans for LaGuardia. In Jersey, the focus has been on two key transportation issues. First, fix the rail tunnels, which were badly damaged by Sandy and will need to be closed in the next 10 to 15 years for major repairs. If a new tunnel with 2 new tracks is not open by then, it will be a disaster if one of the tunnels is closed. I have heard that current capacity is 24 trains an hour. Cutting back to 1 tunnels, reduces capacity to 6 per hour. North Jersey especially needs the tunnels as the job market sucks in the area forcing poor fools like me to undertake a 1 ¾ hour commute each way each day. Second, rebuild or replace the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown, which was opened in 1950 and is now at 125% capacity with over 8,000 buses and 225,000 riders using per day. Supposedly the largest bus terminal by volume in the world. The Port Authority put an addition on it in 1979 and has basically ignored it for the last 25 years. Thus, it, too, is falling apart. Of course, it would have helped if the needed upgrade was done 10 years ago before the real estate prices west of Times Square skyrocketed. Basically, we’re all screwed. AS for Rutgers, I do not know what the deal is outside of the fact that the faculty union would shut-off the athletic subsidy today if they could. [/QUOTE]