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Plus a lot of the train stations are owned by quasi-governmental agencies like the port authority.

Traveling 1 mile under the hudson would involve deals with at least 6 entities: the states of NY and NJ, the port authority, the federal government via amtrak, and the city government of NYC and whichever municipality on the NJ side.

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Lets not forget the 123173817381 unions who may or may not have existing contracts or are hoping to gain new ones by this change..

This is never going to fly in New Jersey. Its so damn corrupt, take any cost and multiply by 10 for our section. And add a newark or jersey city station too, you're not going under us without that.

Maybe best to just go around us.

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