The politicians from both sides of the river were cheering yesterday that the custom-built tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson is getting started, but despite blowing $16 billion in federal funds, commuters will get nothing from it when it’s done in 10 years or so. The pols are only looking at their next election, not the long view.

As we’ve explained before, they can dig two new tubes for trains from New Jersey into Manhattan, but there’s no place for the extra trains in Penn Station and no one in office cares.

To add service for NJTransit or Amtrak, those additional trains have to go into a proposed dead-end terminal in Manhattan south of 31st St. dubbed Penn South, which requires demolishing all the homes and businesses on Block........

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