Yes, seeing Cuomo so tall and proud of the new line was awkward, including in a news interview when he said how old all our infrastructure is, how we're standing on the shoulders of yesterday's labor, etc. with rhetoric about "the last time we built an airport", when it seems the state is usually being pointed at for funding and capital plan issues. Albany has it tough, being in between a huge glorious world city, and a stagnant but not completely insignificant rest of the state, with small and medium cities that are mostly mediocre at best, and have a laundry list of their own different problems than NYC. It is a bit sad how exorbitantly expensive these new stations are, the $4 bn oculus station, which is great but still, HY, SAS, apparently costing more per unit length or station than even Paris and London projects? It's one thing to compare to China, who is building subways 100 miles at a time, and lapping others on HSR, but when it costs even more than the other two giant, just as westernized cities of Paris and London, there may be a point. And when you have groups that are staunchly opposed to technology such as CBTC or automation of any kind regardless of proven effectiveness, it takes a little bit of credibility away.