Cuomo right about choo-choos

Gov.-elect Cuomo is off to a good start seeking federal money for high-speed rail projects that may become available if the new Republican governors of Ohio and Wisconsin turn down their states' share of the moolah. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky had a similar idea before the election when he asked the feds for the money New Jersey Gov. Christie turned down for a rail tunnel under the Hudson, which the Westchester County assemblyman proposed spending instead on a replacement for the decaying Tappan Zee Bridge, which carries the Thruway over the widest part of the Hudson River. That was a good idea, but Cuomo's is more politically correct given that he's looking to shift rail money from one place to another, and improving rail service makes for good environmental and urban as well as transportation policy, and boosts the upstate economy. New York got a pathetically small share of the Obama administration's railroad stimulus, and that needs to be corrected.