The tenuous fate of an estimated $8.7-billion trans-Hudson River rail tunnel exemplifies a dilemma faced by the American transportation industry as a whole: how to fund crucial megaprojects at a time when raising fuel taxes is political suicide and passing a multiyear transportation bill remains a pipe dream.rnNew Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie ? announced on Oct. 7 that he was killing the project, called Access to the Region's Core (ARC) and in development for almost 20 years. But after a quickly arranged meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff the next day in Trenton, Christie agreed to a two-week study of unspecified project "options."
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机译：一条估计价值87亿美元的跨哈德逊河铁路隧道的命运的uous弱体现了美国运输业整体面临的两难境地：在提高燃油税是政治自杀和通过一项多年运输法案的时候，如何为重要的大型项目提供资金新泽西州州长克里斯托弗·克里斯蒂（Christopher Christie）？ 10月7日宣布，他正在终止名为Access to the Region's Core（ARC）的项目，并且该项目正在开发中将近20年。但是，第二天在特伦顿与美国运输部长雷·拉胡德（Ray LaHood）和联邦运输局局长彼得·罗格夫（Peter Rogoff）迅速安排会议之后，克里斯蒂·克里斯蒂（Christie）同意进行为期两周的未指定项目“选择”研究。
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