NEW YORK—A tunnel planned from New Jersey to Penn Station, known as Access to the Region’s Core (ARC), would have been the biggest transportation project in the nation. Yet it was terminated in October last year by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on behalf of the project executive committee in the name of budget discipline.
After more than a year of talking to major stakeholders and transportation groups, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report on Tuesday finding that numbers put forth by Gov. Christie’s office at the time of termination were inaccurate.
New Jersey Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, who commissioned the report, said, “The most important transportation project of our time ... was sacrificed for the short-term political needs of the governor.”
