NYC’s La Guardia Airport has emerged from an $8B renovation without the two items it probably needed the most—a rail link and a longer runway.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week that rising construction costs have doomed what was supposed to be the final piece of the La Guardia rebuild: a light-rail connection known as AirTrain that was the critical link in the original plan to create a commute from the airport in Queens to Midtown Manhattan of less than 30 minutes.

Jack Rogers

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