The men currently employed in trackwork have decades of experience in the complicated and dangerous job of replacing trackwork and signaling in the terminal. Governor Cuomos screeching to "contract out" this work and introduce an entirely new level of supervisory bureaucracy is absurd. We need an additional set of Hudson River tunnels as of yesterday, for starters. It isn't necessarily incompetence that is slowing work. Safety considerations for the trackworkers mean delayed trains. It is not a question of benefiting the LIRR or NJT over AMTRAK. This work cannot be speeded up.
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