WASHINGTON — During a grand presentation in the ornate rotunda of New York Penn Station last month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was Santa Claus in a gray suit, handing out more than $2 billion for rail projects.
Nearly half a billion dollars was to go toward electrical upgrades on the Northeast Corridor between Trenton and New York City, bringing relief to beleaguered commuters on America’s busiest rail line.
Now that funding is threatened by a most unlikely source — a New Je...
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