http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/31/1407618/-Chris-Christie-didn-t-just-kill-the-tunnels-he-did-it-out-of-partisan-spite
"As governor, he didn't just kill the tunnels so that he could divert the money to other New Jersey projects, thus sparing him from having to raise New Jersey's among-the-lowest-in-the-nation gas tax, he did so as part of the organized Republican effort to sabotage America's economic stimulus program and blunt the employment effects of those projects."