Take the Lincoln Tunnel to Penn

Bayonne: With all of the problems commuting between New York City and New Jersey via rail, and talk of a new rail tunnel, how about this thought: Take the south tube of the Lincoln Tunnel and install light rail tracks in the roadbed, as well as in the road in Manhattan to Penn Station. The Hudson-Bergen light rail tracks are just a stone’s throw away from the tunnel entrance in New Jersey. A transfer point can be installed there. By installing tracks in the roadbed, the tunnel can also be used for commuter traffic in off-peak times. This will also take pressure off the two rail tunnels, now in poor condition, under the Hudson River, and relieve Midtown congestion. Fewer autos during peak commuter time would also help clean up the environment.

To speed up the rail line, hybrid cars could be used, electric in the tunnel and diesel/electric aboveground. Installation of overhead electric lines would not be necessary. Another way would be self-driving solid-tire trains with a guide system in the roadbed. There is surely enough technology available now to make this happen sooner rather than later, and it’s probably the cheapest way to go. Robert Wagenti

Cuomo can’t

Middletown, N.Y.: To all the subway, LIRR and Amtrak riders who can’t get to work on time, just remember: Gov. Cuomo wants to run for President in 2020. If he can’t get us to work, can you imagine him running the country? Oh, I forgot — he is a Democrat, and as we all know, Dems get a free ride and aren’t held accountable for anything. Let’s just hope he doesn’t ask the flip-flop hypocrite Chuck Schumer to be his vice president. God help this country. Maureen McGuigan

$4 billion bath

Manhattan: I think I’ve detected a silver lining in the leaking-roof fiasco at the Oculus: the homeless people now have a place to shower. Justin White

Hoovering Comey

Manhattan: When all is said and done, President Trump will have saved America from another J. Edgar Hoover. The fanatical left is willfully blind to how shrewd Trump is and how passionately he loves this country. Jesus said: “Think like a snake but act with the heart of a dove.” Currently we have the embodiment of this wisdom in the White House.

Diane Moriarty

The Obamacare plot

Freehold, N.J.: Health care analyst Bill Hammond says that rising medical costs and President Trump’s vow to replace Obamacare will fuel increases in health insurance premiums (“Sore point in Bamcare rate hikes,” May 16). False! Trump’s vow to replace Obamacare has nothing to do with the increase. The increase has been in Obamacare since it was written. Please note that the increase is coming when Obama is no longer in office, having been planned that way, so he would not have to take the heat.

Richard Doll

Prison right this way

Elmhurst: Several years ago, Steve Bannon, today an adviser to President Trump, appeared at a teleconference organized by the Vatican. He said that it was outrageous that none of the bankers responsible for the economic crisis have been criminally prosecuted. There’s a reason for that: The then-director of the FBI operated on the assumption that bank fraud should be regarded as a civil and not a criminal matter. Now that there is a vacancy at the top, there is possibility for improvement. William K. Black, a law professor based in Kansas City, has an international reputation as the leading legal scholar constructing the conceptual framework to prosecute bank fraud criminally. Bannon should suggest to the President to put Prof. Black into the selection pool as a possible nominee to be FBI director. How about it?

Clifton Wellman

In Sus-Pence

Richmond Hill: I’m glad President Trump is looking into voter fraud. Maybe he’ll find all those illegal votes were for him and he’s not President after all. The only drawback — puppet Pence.

Dorothy Lewis

Solution: Cheaper health care

Brooklyn: The way to have good health care in the United States is to work on the Affordable Care Act and make it more affordable to everyone, and prescription medicine cheaper so everyone can afford to pay for it.

Charles R. Clouden

Preexisting lung damage

Flushing: Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea. End of Obamacare made him sickly. Doctors and nurses, even urgent care, are not insuring him, does anyone? Beware. Now Puff our lifelong friend is no more. This foolishness has to stop so Puff we can restore.

Gary Rofofsky

Pain vs. gain

Jamaica: Re the Republican health plan, which of the following describes the function of high-risk insurance pools? To cover — as in “to insure against risk or loss”? Or to mitigate — “to make or become less severe, intense or painful.” Would one dollar or less fulfill the requirement of mitigation?

Robert T. Gilston

It’s Pat

Yonkers: A special prosecutor should have been appointed. I suggest Patrick Fitzgerald, who has a proven track record on cases like this. He would unravel this tangled web of Trump, Flynn, Comey and the Russians. In the meantime, the President should be asked to keep his mouth shut while this is going on, so that the rest of the world won’t know that he’s not qualified for the job he was elected to. The majority of his advisers are not qualified, either. Anyway, he probably would not listen to them. What a mess.

Maurice O’Sullivan

Can’t get past us

Manhattan: President Trump: You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Millie Angelo

The White House

Bronx: I noticed President Trump has invited white officials with white skin, Asian officials with white skin and Arab officials with white skin, but has never invited a dark-skinned leader from Africa. I’m just saying . . . James Pettus

Destination: elsewhere

Woodmere, L.I.: To Voicer Reba Shimansky: Why don’t you do everybody a favor and move to Israel. Mike Schmidt

They care

Staten Island: I just want to praise the people at Staten Island University Hospital. Dr. Coomer is a great doctor and a wonderful person. All the nurses are angels who take good care of their patients. There isn’t enough I can say except list their names. There’s Isabella the OR nurse, Jackie the physician’s assistant, Nicole P. in the recovery room, Glen the OR tech, Dr. Doss the anesthesiologist and Joey O. in reception. God bless them all forever. Grace Lutrario

We can’t hear you

North Arlington, N.J.: To all peaceful Muslims: After each terrorist attack, your silence is deafening. Ronald Martino

Colbert action

East Rockaway, L.I.: I am a Korean War veteran who served this country. I love this country and was happy to serve. When a lowlife like Stephen Colbert comes along and talks this way about our President, it is a total disgrace. If he doesn’t like it in the U.S., let him go live in Russia or China. You fool. Sherwin Levey

Punt the ball

Glen Oaks: “Rex who” should not even be mentioned in the same breath. The next John Madden? You gotta be kidding. Rex, do everybody a favor: Just go quietly. You surely can’t coach.

Gerry Tehan

Hits and strikes

Flushing: These rich and famous athletes should save their romancing for the girl next door. They should know that the beauties who date them wouldn’t even give them a first look if it weren’t for their celebrity status.

Evelyn Zorovich

In stitches

SHAWN INGLIMA Bronx: Can you please show us a photo of these two clowns Mr. Met and Mrs. Met. I am curious as to what they look like. P.S. I hate mascots — get rid of them. They are boring. Leo Barta

You’d better believe

Bayside: To all you die-hard, loyal Mets fans out there: One month from now, maybe two, the firstplace Mets will be looking down at the other teams, and every fan will be saying: “Who would have believed the Mets would be in first place today, after their grueling first two months?” Ya gotta believe! Sarah Alboher