Wabash Tunnel

Background

• Cost $1-million a year to clean it.
• Cost $21-million to re-open it.
• Only 400 cars use the tunnel each day.
• It might be closed in 2006???

• PAT could save money by taking over the maintenance of the Wabash Tunnel. Maintenance is currently (March 2007) being outsourced. [1]

• Planks about the Wabash Tunnel from Mark Rauterkus
• Wabash Tunnel-plank-Others

Insights

• Annual costs were reported to be $1-million. Now the costs are down to about $600,000 per year.
• If PAT should transfer the ownership of the Wabash Tunnel to PennDot, a bill of $20-million would be due to pay back the feds. PAT can't get federal money and break its promise and not honor its promises.

Links

• HOV
• PAT
• Tunnel

Blogs

• [2] from October, 2006