Gateway Tunnel gets good enough rating from feds to keep going.
The federal government deemed the Gateway Tunnel project between New York and New Jersey worthy to move through the process of getting cash from Washington, officials announced Thursday.
The $11 billion scheme to build two new rail tunnels beneath the Hudson while repairing century-old existing tubes got a “medium-high” rating from the Federal Transit Administration, the second-highest designation.
“The Gateway Tunnel project has just secured a positive rating at the FTA, and it is just huge because it means the billions we secured for this project are that much closer to being put to work,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a statement on Jan. 20.
The tunnels will expand train capacity between New York’s Penn Station and Secaucus in the Garden State on Amtrak and NJ Transit lines, and the current 112-year-old structures they were inundated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey project still needs to complete more steps before moving into the penultimate phase of the FTA’s Capital Investment Grants program, known as Engineering.
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