Instead of slashing transportation projects or other infrastructure, for example, leaders would be pressed to cut operating expenditures.
The economic corridor calls for a transportation network linking the western Chinese region of Xinjiang to the port, which would slash shipping times to Europe and could reduce Beijing's heavy reliance on the sea lanes of Southeast Asia.
And that they catch on to the point that it eats into the Department of Transportation's revenue, so they have to slash public transportation frequency to a point where it's no longer viable to maintain a robust public transportation system.
After price cuts by competitors, Mr. Virosque's company reduced charges for storage and transportation, and slashed its work force to about 170, from 250. "The worst thing is that we have to cut the young people," he said, because higher severance makes it too expensive to fire older workers.
Earlier this year, Trump's transportation budget slashed funding for Amtrak, which weathered a $630 million loss in subsidies for long-distance routes.
But the Port Authority, which has already slashed its capital budget for transportation projects because of falling toll revenues, was loath to invest in speculative office space that could sit empty for years to come.
International freight transportation and aviation would need to be slashed, says the report, as they "cannot continue to grow at current rates" because of the need to cut emissions as well as the lack of low carbon alternatives. .
All of which sounded spectacular on the evening news: two tough-talking governors take on the region's vast transportation agency, slash costs and budgets, and attribute problems and fallout to past management.
Business-friendly Democrats hold more sway in the Assembly, where they also blocked a proposal to slash oil use for transportation last year. .
School aid, Medicaid, transportation, employee salaries, social services, courts — whatever there was to cut, states have slashed it, often at ruinous costs to the most vulnerable: the poor, the sick and disabled, students, tens of thousands of laid-off workers.
