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The North River Tunnels were 102 years old when they were inundated by seawater from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. [186] If the new Hudson Tunnel is not built, the North River Tunnels will have to be closed one at a time, reducing weekday service below the existing level of 24 trains per hour.
Kolluri, who has overseen the bistate agency in charge of the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnels project, informed the commission's co-chairs, Alicia Glen, Balpreet Grewal-Virk and Tony Coscia ...
The project includes building a new tunnel under the Hudson between North Jersey ... to deliver the $16.1 billion Hudson River tunnels ... and a project to update a partially underground subway ...
The work includes injecting a mix of soil, concrete and water to stabilize the soft Hudson riverbed that will help ensure a tunnel boring machine can excavate the new tunnel while protecting the ...
The New York Tunnel Extension branched off from the original line two miles northeast of Newark, then ran northeast across the Jersey Meadows to the North River Tunnels and New York Penn. [25] The tunnel project included the Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River and the Manhattan Transfer interchange with the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad ...
Among those projects is the construction of a new Hudson River Tunnel between New York and New Jersey. The original was built in 1910 and suffered severe saltwater damage during Superstorm Sandy ...
In March 2012, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal agency, published a report entitled Commuter Rail Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project, [64] which concluded that Christie's basis for cancellation was a misrepresentation and that he misstated the estimated costs, cost over-runs ...
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