Sobering article. Scary. I hope whoever builds the tunnels will allow room for a bicycle lane to reduce reliance on automobiles. and ease up traffic congestion.

?I?m being told we got something less than 20 years before we have to shut one or two down,? said Amtrak C.E.O. Joseph Boardman at the Regional Plan Association?s conference last week at the Waldorf Astoria. ?Something less than 20. I don?t know if that something less than 20 is seven, or some other number."

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?I?ve been hearing abstractly people at Amtrak and other people at New Jersey Transit say for years the tunnels are over 100 years old and we have to be worried about them,? he said. ?To actually have Joe put something concrete on the table, less than 20 years ? Within my office, there was a level of, ?Wow, this is really serious.'?

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