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November 24, 2015

Is port authority up to the challenge of running $20B Hudson tunnel project?

By DAVID PORTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK — There's no question the agency that operates much of the infrastructure around the nation's largest city has lost esteem in recent years because of flubs including a scandal that reached into the New Jersey governor's office, billions of dollars in overruns on projects including the new World Trade Center, and an audit calling it “challenged and dysfunctional.”

So why should the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey be trusted to oversee the $20 billion construction of a new Hudson River rail tunnel, one of the largest infrastructure projects the region has ever seen?


 
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