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Report: Cuomo's Miracle L Train Plan Looks An Awful Lot Like This Dangerous Plan Rejected In 2015


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Jake Offenhartz

Published Jan 15, 2019

Modified Jan 15, 2019


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Governor Cuomo makes his L train announcement next to Mary Boyce, the dean of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, and Lance Collins, the Joseph Silbert dean of Engineering at Cornell University.
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Jake Offenhartz

Published Jan 15, 2019

Modified Jan 15, 2019


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