Who Supports ARC?

October 15th, 2010 by Jay Corbalis

Throughout the debate around ARC that has raged over the last few weeks, some have suggested that the project is only supported by politicians and special interests who stand to benefit directly from the tunnel. In fact, ARC has a wide range of supporters, from advocacy organizations like New Jersey Future, to business executives, environmentalists, labor unions, economists and local officials, to name a few. Below is a sampling of the support the project has received over the last few weeks:

The best solution in an imperfect world (New Jersey Future)
Don’t let ARC go off track (Regional Plan Association)
The End of the Tunnel (Paul Krugman, NY Times)
Planned Hudson tunnel is vital for New Jersey (Star-Ledger)
We Need the Access to the Region’s Core Tunnel! (Tri-State Transportation Campaign)
Policy at Its Worst (Bob Herbert, NY Times)
Gov. Christie’s Tunnel Vision (NY Times)
Don’t kill New Jersey-New York rail tunnel (The Express-Times)
The ARC of Destruction: A Bad Decision and Its Far-Reaching Effects (Fair Share Housing Center)
Yes, rethink cancellation of rail tunnel (Vineland Daily Journal)
Settling infrastructure issues is key to economic prosperity (Gil Medina, executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield Inc.)
Save the rail tunnel (William Mullen, president, New Jersey State Building & Construction Trades Council)
Don’t kill rail tunnel (Downtown Express)
Light at the beginning of the tunnel (Trenton Times)
Christie off the rails on tunnel (Asbury Park Press)
New Jersey cannot afford to cancel rail tunnel project (NJ Policy Perspective)
THE tunnel: An investment in N.J.’s economic future (PlanSmart NJ)
New Jersey Needs ARC — Not More Gimmicks and Highways (Environment NJ/NJ Pirg)
Sierra Club backs tunnel (Sierra Club)
The Jersey Train Tunnel Is a Smart Investment (Steven Cohen, Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University)
Christie sacrifices responsibility for image (Fran Wood, Star-Ledger)
Chris Christie’s big decision (Gulliver Blog, Economist)
Shame to those who watched ARC crumble (Thomas Jardim, former mayor of Westfield and is vice chairman of the Raritan Valley Rail Coalition)
Don’t let this opportunity slip away: Keep Hudson rail tunnel project on track (Martin Robins, director emeritus of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University)
Recession Will Never End If This Tunnel Isn’t Built (Joe Mysak, Bloomberg News)
Ray Pocino, Vice President and Eastern Regional Manager for the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)
Joint Statement on ARC Tunnel (Captain Bill Sheehan, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Debbie Manns, NY/NJ Baykeeper)
Elegy for a Train Tunnel (New York Observer)