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New York Tunnel Extension, 1912. The right-of-way was originally developed by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) [22] in conjunction with the 1910 opening of New York's Pennsylvania Station, which required the construction of the Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River, as well as the North River Tunnels under the Hudson Palisades and Hudson River.
The Biden administration will award $3.8 billion to help build a long-delayed new railway tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, state officials said Friday. In total, the federal government ...
1966 – New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller began a concerted effort to build a bridge across the Sound. 1971 – Creighton, Hamburg, Incorporated studied eight bridge proposals for the NYSDOT. 1979 – New York Governor Hugh Carey set up a tri-state advisory committee to study building a bridge across the Sound.
The $17.2 billion Hudson Tunnel Project will repair an existing tunnel and build a new one for passenger railroad Amtrak and state commuter lines between New Jersey and Manhattan.
The $16.1 billion Gateway project will add two new rail tunnels between NJ and Manhattan, reducing NJ Transit and Amtrak delays in a major corridor
Direct connections for rail freight between Long Island and nearby areas of the United States have long been limited. At present, freight trains from the west and south destined for New York City (except for Staten Island, via the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge), Long Island and Connecticut must cross the Hudson River using the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge which is 140 miles (225 km ...
The replacement for a crumbling underwater tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey that carries up to 200,000 people daily just received the largest-ever federal transportation grant ...
Around the same time, Robert Moses alleged that the Queens–Midtown Tunnel would not be profitable, during an unrelated argument about the feasibility of building the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel. [127] This prompted the New York State Legislature to conduct an investigation into the Queens–Midtown Tunnel's costs. [128]