Gateway Program

It's going to open up doors for everybody in the brain driver.

Now, the CIA just released some top secret papers on the Gateway Project suggesting that brain drivers will cure one of two forms of dementia.

The one in the Wernicke's area of the brain, not the Broca's area, but the Wernicke's area of the brain.

And guess what? That's exactly where my wormhole came from.

If there are areas where I can work with the president and work with the Republican Party, by the way, there's been a lot of those when it comes to border security, areas of the working families tax cut, like the SALT deduction increase, right? Those areas, I'm incredibly supportive.

But if there's things that the president's going to do that are bad for our district, whether it's the Gateway Tunnel funding, whether it's the ACA subsidy extension issue, whether it's tariffs, his tariff policy, these are things I think are inherently bad for our district and I'll stand up against it.

And I think at the end of the day, If voters really wanna change in Washington, in our district, I'm really the only choice they can go for because Ms. Mejia is continuing to push an extremism on the other side of the aisle.

And the things she attacks Donald Trump for, she does herself.

They're one of the nation's leading independent planning and policy organizations focused on the future of New York.

Now, Tom has spent decades working on issues involving transportation, infrastructure, housing, economic development, regional growth, and the RPA has been deeply engaged in conversations around Penn Station, the Gateway Program, just generally the future of Midtown Manhattan's surrounding district.

So that's a mouthful, but today we'll be covering really mostly the ongoing Penn Station redesign and what it could mean for commuters and the broader metropolitan region.

You know, just how major infrastructure project like this can really shape the real estate and public space surrounding it.

That's a symbiotic relationship that both benefit from.

But there's a hard number, a hard limit on the number of trains that can come under the Hudson River under those existing tunnels, which are now in danger of failing.

So there's a project going forward called the Gateway Program, which includes as its first component a $16 billion new set of two tracks that would go next to the existing ones.

Construction is already underway.

That's how we can represent our members and why we do have to get engaged.

And the example I can point to is go back to Gateway Tunnel.

That's something you and I talked about.

We have one politician who already had all of the project.

He'd rather hurt Democrats than to...

And if that hurts Tom Kane's reelection, just like with the Gateway Tunnel and Jack Ciattarelli, or the Gateway Tunnel and Tom Kane, or putting this giant ice facility in the middle of Tom Kane's district that the Republican in town it's supposed to be and hates and then giving mixed messages.

There's no care given towards these people and it makes them look more slavish almost to just be like, they can't even say, they can't even name him when they're complaining about a policy of his administration that's completely driven by him and his personality.

And that really, I can't speak for voters, but to me, it's really sad.

We talk with one police chief leading the charge for change.

But first, the latest in the Trump administration's funding fight over the Gateway Tunnel.

From the courts to construction, where does the massive transit project stand? That's next.

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The Trump administration is once again taking on the Gateway Tunnel project, issuing a notice of appeal late last week to a previous federal ruling back in June that blocked the administration from freezing funds for the $16 billion infrastructure project.

We look at this and other issues with Larry Higgs, the transportation and commuting reporter for NJ.com. Larry, great to have you on the show.

Tell us the latest with the Trump administration and their plans to appeal this ruling over the Gateway Tunnel project.