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Hurricane Sandy: One year later, work continues
The physical damage to the infrastructure was unavoidable; you can’t move tunnels and rail yards. The decision by New Jersey Transit to move locomotives and coaches into low-lying areas just before the storm hit was inexcusable.
To date, no one in NJT has been held accountable for this decision. Gov Christie had tried to blame it on a low-level (unnamed) employee who acted on his own without informing upper management. This unnamed individual could not be fired because of Civil Service rules.
Turns out that no employee at NJTransit is under Civil Service, and that recently released e-mails show that upper management was well aware of the decisions that were being made.
The Governor refuses to address these “inconsistencies”.
I don’t think Governor Chris Christie gives a rat’s ass about NJT or any other passenger rail for that matter.
My fellow New Jerseyite K.Schumacher is so right, it’s disgusting. Our governor is a tea partier and hates public transit. He killed the second Amtrak tunnel. He hasn’t done anything to extend the Hudson-Bergen Light-Rail Line. And what about NJ Transit mess after Sandy? What a shame.