In the Chicago Tribune yesterday Biden is supposed to have said the new PATH tunnel being built into NYC should be able to handle a lot of cars and alleviate congestion on the other ones. From the guy who wants us to believe he rides the rails.
May not have been a slip at all. The things the locomotives pull are called cars, both freight and passenger. The self propelled units, all the way from the Doodlebugs to the most modern are called cars. The tunnel will run roughly the same route as the Pennsy ones (the other ones) under the river from NJ to Penn station.
Actually, more likely what a person familiar with rail terminology would say.
Anyone who follows along with such info…{Politics, Amtrak, etc…}, surely knows Vice Pres. Biden really does ride the rails.
Correction: Perhaps not as Vice Pres., but he certainly did as a Senator.
According to Fox News (below), Biden used the phrase “automobile traffic” during a phone conference in response to a question from The Record (newspaper) of Bergen County (NJ). See:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/09/biden-mistakenly-claims-hudson-tunnel-accomodate-cars/
I haven’t been able to quickly find anything on-line from or by The Record that would confirm or further illuminate this faux pas (pun intended !).
- PDN.
Much Ado About Nothing!!
Agreed.
What a non-story.
While I am not a big fan of the Vice President, it is a known fact that he does use the railways as a means of transportation. (see story on then Senator Joe Biden and Senator Arlen Specter)
Very Much Agreed!
New PATH tunnel? Where?
So many things are wrong here.
Good catch ! Of course, it should have been the new NJT Hudson River tunnel, not PATH’s.
Yeah, I was wondering if PATH was getting a new tunnel as part of the deal (I rode PATH to the WTC site, and while it wasn’t crowded, the station was a bit out of the way.) but I guess not…
Maybe it’s actually a different tunnel? Does the Port Authority (or something by a similar name) operate any roads? If so, are there any tunnels in progress? That might be the cause of most of the mistakes, like confusing a different agency with PATH (the name doesn’t give any clues to rail service) for example.
So what Biden did was also done here!
What is the definition of “is?”
Okay, okay…the bud is hereby nipped.
(locked)