{"id":4876,"date":"2009-05-21T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:17:03","slug":"for_43_billion_you_could_renovate_jfks_terminal_4_more_than_three_times_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/for_43_billion_you_could_renovate_jfks_terminal_4_more_than_three_times_over.html","title":{"rendered":"For $4.3 Billion, You Could Renovate JFK&#8217;s Terminal 4 More Than Three Times Over*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or you could build three New Yankee Stadiums. Or more than one Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. Or 10.8 Gravina Island Bridges. In other words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/05\/21\/2009-05-21_wtc_may_go_11_billion_over_budget.html\">you can do a lot with $4.3 billion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is near-certain to bust its $3.2 billion budget &#8212; and there&#8217;s a chance it will cost more than $4.3 billion to build, the Daily News has learned. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a spike of as much as $1.1 billion from the Port Authority&#8217;s &#8220;clear-eyed&#8221; estimate of only eight months ago, a review of Hub costs obtained by The News under the Freedom of Information Act reveals. <\/p>\n<p>The December report by the Federal Transit Administration says it&#8217;s 90% certain the Port Authority will blow a June 2014 deadline for opening the Santiago Calatrava-designed megaterminal. <\/p>\n<p>The FTA study also estimated there&#8217;s a 50-50 chance the Hub could cost $3.8 billion, shattering its budget by $600 million &#8212; with no funding for the extra costs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Cost: $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or you could build three New Yankee Stadiums. Or more than one Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. Or 10.8 Gravina Island Bridges. In other words, you can do a lot with $4.3 billion: The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is near-certain to bust its $3.2 billion budget &#8212; and there&#8217;s a chance it will cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}