Just another hit piece, how about some fiscal sanity, do you guys ever write about that. christie is right, that project will balloon just like the big dig. Let's get our fiscal house in order, starting with the federal government,15.5 trillion and counting.

*****"The federal government's willingness to cover so much of the cost of the tunnel appropriately reflected its national importance".******** I believe that is MY TAX MONEY you are talking about. I am glad someone said no to SOMETHING- ANYTHING. Treating tax money like it grows on trees and not from PEOPLES HARD WORK is what got us into this mess!!!!! People feel they are taxed much too much already. GO CHRIS CHRISTIE.

Wow! I had an excellent piece and was almost ready to post my ranting reply when I had to look up how to spell "Ahmadinejad" (trust me, the context was perfect) I came back and my post was gone. BUT....... it's clear that in the time it took me to do all of that, common sense arrived! 'Guys' your posts thus far are spot-on. It's nice to see that there are people who can see past the BS and post some common sense responses to sad, one-sided editorials.

Is this the beginning of a Globe campaign to prevent Gov. Christie from being a VP candidate? I can't help but see Democratic Party strategy underneath most of your editorials and even your news story selection.

The Globe knows how well our big dig worked out, that's why they support this project. Oh, wait . . .

The bow-tied bumkisser that wrote this piece of unthought drivel is not only wrong, he/she is absolutely disingenuous. New Jersey Gov. Christie may actually be very provincial in his refusal to pursue a Hudson River tunnel. That is not only his right - it is his first duty. It is not Christie's duty to be worried that Massachusetts-based travelers get hung up a bit by East Coast traffic. The greatest evidence that Christie is correct is to be found in the history of the Massachusetts "Big Dig" and its exorbitant debt that rose from a starting estimate of $2 billion to more than $15 billion. The "Big Dig" debt is also never ending, its latest installment being a few hundred million dollars needed to replace lighting units in "Big Dig" tunnels. The Boston Globe politically will not criticize too severely in an election year the nation's largest ever highway/tunnel project proposed by two guys named Salvucci and Dukakis, both staunch Demohacks. The solution to the Hudson River tunnel that the Globe thinks New Jersey should finance is not a one-state obligation. If the entire East Coast is harmed, as the bow-tied fella suggests, a Hudson River tunnel should be totally financed by the Federal government, except perhaps for small side projects like ramps and traffic controly systems for local neighborhoods. As for Christie exaggerating facts, could the same not be said of Massachusetts pols, including much beloved U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neil, who brought lots of federal funds to the "Big Dig" trough? Except that the Massachusetts exaggerations were efforts to diminish the actual amounts the "Big Dig" would cost, never mind the oversight needed to keep it from killing motorists and continually need replenishment of badly installed features. How wrong has Christie been, except in the minds of narrowly-focused Massachusetts intersts like the bowtied Globie that wrote this snippet?

Boy, you guys must be getting pretty desperate looking for "hits" on relatively popular Republicans. Christie took over a New Jersey with ludicrous spending imbalances. He's managing to reign them in. Yet when he says his BROKE STATE can't fund a Big Dig like boondoggle (the "estimated" costs of which will no doubt triple as they always do with such infrastructure) you have the gall to say he's "exaggerated" the facts. And Dukakis' dig numbers weren't "exaggerated".....to about a third? You accuse Christie of this when nothing built in Massachusetts in the last 40 years has come in anywhere NEAR the original budget? This isn't even a "nice try". You guys can't do better? Christie is trying to get some breathing room in the New Jersey budget for a change. Wow, what a phenomenal concept; get your act together before you take on a major, new, risk.

Name one federally funded construction project that has ever come in uon budget. Cost are always understated to get it to pass. While I agree the tunnel is needed lets be upfront on the costs and besure to set aside money for the corruption investigation afterward.

The Big Dig cost a lot more than originally forecast. There are ongoing problems with one of the largest civil works projects in recorded history. OK, stipulated. Now, imagine Boston if the Big Dig had not occurred. The trolls will not acknowledge what the economic impact of that project has been, but anyone who lives here or regularly traverses the interstate understands what its impact has been. I don't care for NYC or NJ and avoid them at all costs, but the NJ Governor's "principalled" veto of this project was remarkable in how self-serving it was for him politically. The NYC/NJ area is one of the nation's largest wealth generators and transportation centers, but this decision not to invest in basic, sorely needed infrastructure is nothing less than astonishing. Not only did the Governor fudge the numbers, but he torpedoed a jobs generator at a time when his state could have used it. The editorial is right on.

So, the Hudson River tunnel would cost taxpayers, but the Keystone XL Pipeline would what, be built for free? And the Keystone XL Pipeline would create jobs, but the Hudson River tunnel wouldn't? And when was the pipeline project cancelled? Uniformed doesn't even being to describe your comments. Too funny. You can't even keep your own ideology straight.

He should fit right in the White House. Presently no one listens to the GAO budget.