Public Transportation and Smart Growth

After unilaterally cancelling NJ's participation in the GP, after shovels in the ground, Christie didn't return the federal money (billions of $$). He kept the money and applied it to specific NJ state transportation projects, so he could say that repairs were being done without raising NJ state taxes. (Think of it like this: you have a joint account with your spouse for the specific purpose of house payments, but you look at the account and notice it's been cleaned out. Why: your spouse has used the funds to pay for shop-a-holic forays.)