"One of the ways of doing that would be to commit to further infrastructure — Crossrail 2, more river crossings, a massive house building programme for the city.
The authority began by building the Hudson River crossings, bringing in the George Washington Bridge on time and under budget.
That plan includes everything from dredging the harbor channels and expanding airport facilities to buying new PATH trains and building additional bridge crossings between New York and New Jersey.
Officials said yesterday that the state had spent millions of dollars in overtime pay to provide additional security at the state's airports, power plants, reservoirs, Hudson River crossings, government buildings and major roadways since the terror attacks two months ago.
Mexico says it is doing its part, spending about $300 million in the past few years building or modernizing border crossings, issuing identity cards for agriculture workers and establishing checkpoints on major roads to deter and catch migrants.
In addition, Israel last month halted the import of building materials through the crossings it controls, after the discovery of a sophisticated tunnel built by Hamas militants from Gaza to Israel.
It is thus very important, despite the personal losses involved, to stand back from this accident and not to respond to knee-jerk suggestions - such as building bridges over all the main level crossings.
It is possible to slash crossings in a particular area by flooding it with guardsmen or building walls.
While Italy's reception centres are overflowing, such infrastructure is completely lacking on most Greek islands and in Hungary, which is building a 100 mile-long fence and could criminalise irregular border crossings within weeks.
Building the bridge is not an alternative to building urgently needed river crossings in east London; they were not competitors for a pot of money, and two-thirds of the cost will be raised from donations.
