Of course, we should rebuild to protect against future storms.
While many mistakes were made--and they outlined and responded to each of them--a significant problem was resources.
Now, some of our colleagues seem to think that any attempt to rebuild our transit systems with an eye toward mitigation and making them stro...
This really needs to be done in a coordinated fashion that bridges all of the local players, all of the local agencies, State and local gove...
I have lived in New Jersey my whole life, and I have never, ever seen the type of devastation we have now.
Now is the time to determine what actions we must take in order to build back the region in a way that makes us less vulnerable in future st...
What are the consequences of not having the resources under which you would make those decisions?
So, in essence, it is more fiscally prudent to do the mitigation than to just replace as it was and wait for the next storm and repay all ov...
That amount would not even cover the recovery estimates that we currently have, much less get to any of the necessary mitigation investments...
If we cannot get New York and New Jersey workers and businesses back to the pre-storm pace in terms of economic recovery, I think we are goi...
It seems to me that it is not only common sense, but for my friends who are fiscal hawks, the reality is that it is far more fiscally respon...