People in the New York area who have to pay obscene bridge and tunnel tolls to finance this may think differently.
These cost over runs are unacceptable. Top management of the project should be removed as should some PA officials.
Its getting ridiculous and most of the $$$ are funneled into this project which is starting to become a Boondoggle. Support for the project has taken everytime theres a hike , and I think it will reach a point in the not to distant future where people will start losing there jobs and if the project isn't finished by 2016 then all work should stop. Theres a backlog of 15 Billion in Road , Port , PATH , and Airport improvements the PA has said they will do with each hike but nothing gets done and more $$$ are pumped into this project. Its not fair to the 600,000 daily users of the PA facilities , were paying for Improvements were never going to see and for a project that has gone way over budget. Finding tenants for this project has been hard , its because no one wants to work down there , there scared.... Hench why you still see companies moving or expanding across the river in Jersey City or in Midtown...but not into Lower Manhattan.
I'm not a hater on this project , but its starting to hurt us working class commuters and the freight industry in this region. I'm probably going to get grilled for this by people not from this region , but most of the people from this region share my concern and thoughts. The Project in my opinion has also passed the cost to benefit price....its no longer worth it...the concept is fine , the costs are not.