$300M for a couple stairways into an old Post Office: “Once more unto the Moynihan Station morass”

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I’ve said it before, at least once, and I’ll surely say it again: It’s incredibly expensive to do anything in NYC, and especially, it seems, if it’s transportation related.

Here, The Powers That Be plan to spend $1,000,000,000 turning the old main post office (adjacent to NYC’s Pennsylvania Station for what should be obvious reasons) into what Mr Kabak (author of the story above) calls a new waiting room for Amtrak. Like the PATH station at the World Trade Center, this project adds no new capacity to the transportation system. None.

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$300M for a couple stairways into an old Post Office: “Once more unto the Moynihan Station morass”

Well, come on, what else would I call it?

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Well, come on, what else would I call it?