I’ve lived in this area about half of my adult life. Taken the train to NYC many times. But, I had no friggin idea how bad the tunnels are. And I really have always wondered why there are no lights. Now I know … it’s pitch black for a reason. Holy shit, this is a frightful read. Maybe Ms Freud and I should take the bus.
The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse
Commuters exit Penn Station.
To get to New York’s Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey, through tunnels beneath the Hudson River, in the dark. Trust me: They should be glad. One day this autumn, an Acela pulls into Newark, N.J., and a railway spokesman escorts me onto the rear engine car, where we stand and take in the view facing backward. As we descend into one of the Hudson tunnels—there are two, both 107 years old, finished in the same year the Wright brothers built their first airplane factory—a supervisor flips on the rear headlights, illuminating the ghastly tubes.
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