A boon to ‘bomb trains’

How a railroad megamerger could create an attractive new option for shipping Canadian tar-sands oil to U.S. refineries when pipelines fail.

Greetings from rainy Astoria, Queens, where the massive upzoning project you may remember reading about here a few weeks ago looks less doomed than it did last time we were in touch. The developers behind Innovation QNS committed to making 40% of the roughly 2,800 units of new housing affordable, up from 25% in previous pitches. 

City Council will make t…