Bloomberg Plans a Subway to New Jersey

Michael Bloomberg is hatching a plan to build a subway tunnel under the Hudson River linking Manhattan to Secaucus, NJ. The plan is designed to replace the long-planned tunnel from New Jersey that Chris Christie killed when he came into office, and according to a secret memorandum obtained by the New York Times, it would cost about half as much as that project, because the city is already extending a tunnel near the waterfront.

The tunnel “could address many of the region’s transportation capacity issues,” said a spokesman for the deputy mayor, but “the idea is still in it its earliest stages.” Christie, Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo—a Republican, an Independent, and a Democrat, for those keeping score at home—would probably have to cooperate to build the tunnel. A Christie spokesman says he's open to it, but a Cuomo spokesman says there haven't been any talks yet. (More New York City stories.)