# New info on Port Authority investigation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-port-authority-investigation/733235>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 2, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-port-authority-investigation/733235 "2015-10-02T13:08:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-port-authority-investigation/733235/1 "2015-10-02T13:08:33Z")

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[Chris Christie looks worse the more he gets looked at:

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> Documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a peek into the legal strategies being explored by officials for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who are under investigation for a controversial decision to divert $1.8 billion from an agency rail project to state highway repairs.

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> That’s an issue because the Port Authority’s main business is operating metropolitan New York’s major airports, seaports and key river crossings, and the bi-state agency is generally forbidden from spending money on state roads.
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> Facing an empty highway fund, New Jersey Gov. Christie canceled a planned new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River and in 2011 announced that the authority would spend $1.8 billion from that project to rehabilitate the Skyway and a nearby bridge and road.
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> Authority officials justified the move by declaring that the Skyway was an access road to the Lincoln Tunnel, a circuitous eight miles away. One of the authority’s own lawyers warned that the explanation “may raise questions in the minds of some.”

]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_PORT\_AUTHORITY\_SKYWAY\_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-02-02-04-07](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PORT_AUTHORITY_SKYWAY_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-02-02-04-07))This yutz will never be POTUS.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-port-authority-investigation/733235/2 "2015-10-02T13:27:32Z")

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Well the Skyway is used as access to the tunnel, so at least that part was correct, however that does not mean that it is part of the Port Authority, it seems not and also seems better for them just to concern themselves with the crossings themselves, because for that matter interstate 80 and 76 all the way across NJ into PA is also used as access, and where does one draw the line.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-info-on-port-authority-investigation/733235/3 "2015-10-02T13:32:16Z")

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Oh noes, not Port Authority Wildstein again!