Amtrak<\/a>\u2019s existing 112-year-old North River rail tunnel, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Amtrak\u2019s Northeast Corridor is the most heavily-used passenger rail line in the US.<\/p>\n“It is one of the biggest and most consequential projects in the country,” said Biden in his interview with New York and New Jersey elected leaders.<\/p>\n
Due to inflationary pressures and supply chain issues, GDC stated that the tunnel\u2019s cost had increased by US$2bn to US$16bn in previous autumn last year.<\/p>\n
While the GDC announced it was seeking a delivery partner for the Hudson Tunnel project in December 2022, news of the US$292m grant came a day after Biden visited Baltimore where he announced the State of Maryland and Amtrak had concluded an agreement, which includes a US$450m (\u00a3363m) commitment from the state\u2019s transportation agency for the Baltimore-Potomac tunnel replacement project. The estimated cost for whole of this program is around US$6bn (\u00a34.84bn), whereas the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding could contribute up to US$4.7bn (\u00a33.61bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The current year is the date of commencing construction on New York\u2019s Gateway Tunnel, following announcement of President Biden about a US$292m (\u00a3237m) grant for this project during a visit to Manhattan on 31 January. According to the Gateway Development Commission (GDC), the bi-state public authority charged with overseeing the Gateway Program to upgrade train infrastructure between New York and New Jersey: “With President Biden\u2019s support and tireless work, Gateway will start active construction this year to deliver a more reliable, climate resilient, 21st century rail link for the region and the nation.” Including building of a new two-tube tunnel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[455,2954,2955,47,229],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-hudson-tunnel-project","tag-new-yorks-gateway-tunnel","tag-president-biden","tag-tunneling","tag-us","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}