Hudson River Tunnel Project Moves Ahead as States Agree to Share Costs

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Hudson River Tunnel Project Moves Ahead as States Agree to Share Costs

A project to build new tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station moved a step closer to construction with an agreement between New York and New Jersey.

By Patrick McGeehan
July 5, 2022

For the last 20 years, the plan to dig new train tunnels under the Hudson River — among the most ambitious and important transportation projects in the country — has been repeatedly tripped up by political wrangling.

So when the governors of New York and New Jersey agreed on Tuesday to split evenly their share of the $14 billion first phase of the project — known as Gateway — the announcement struck a familiar note.

After all, two different governors had reached a similar agreement in 2015, when Chris Christie was New Jersey’s chief executive and Andrew M. Cuomo was still in charge in Albany. To say that progress on the tunnels has been slow since then would be an understatement.

While the actual digging of the tunnels is still at least more than a year away, the announcement on Tuesday was a sign that Gateway might finally be moving forward.

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[bluedigger]

1. I worked on the first go round of this project in 2003.

Helped relocate a cemetery to make room for a station in Secaucus.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Chris Christie's action cancelling the tunnels in 2010 convinced me

that Republicans should NEVER, EVER be trusted with public infrastructure projects. They’ll either sell it off at a loss to benefit their cronies or cancel it to please billionaire campaign donors or partisan ideologues who put theories before reality or who hate the idea of government benefitting their citizenry.