Hudson Tunnel Project Set to Resume This Week

February 25, 2026 The Turntable
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill joins Cory Booker, U.S. Senator, State of New Jersey, Rob Menendez, U.S. Congressman, 8th Congressional District of New Jersey Frank Pallone, U.S. Congressman, 6th Congressional District of New Jersey Josh Gottheimer, U.S. Congressman, 5th Congressional District of New Jersey Nellie Pou, U.S. Congresswoman, 9th Congressional District of New Jersey LaMonica McIver, U.S. Congresswoman, 10th Congressional District of New Jersey and union representatives regarding the Gateway Tunnel Project due to the funding for the project will officially run out on Friday per the Trump Administration, while in Weehawken, N.J. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (Office of Governor / Tim Larsen)

NEWARK, New Jersey — Construction on the Hudson Tunnel Project will resume this week, the Gateway Development Commission said, following a work pause that began Feb. 6 when President Donald Trump said he would withhold federal tax dollars for the project.

The commission said nearly 1,000 jobs affected by the pause will be restored as workers return to sites in New York and New Jersey. It said the restart is being funded with about $235 million that the commission received from the federal government earlier this month.

The Hudson Tunnel Project includes construction of a new rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York and rehabilitation of the existing tunnel, which has been in service since 1910 and is a source of chronic delays for hundreds of thousands of daily riders.

The commission said work advancing in the coming weeks will include continued excavation of the tunnel boring machine launch box at the portal to the new tunnel, preparations to assemble the first tunnel boring machine in North Bergen, and coordination of delivery for a second tunnel boring machine that is ready to ship from its manufacturing facility. Additional work will include continued slurry wall installation for the 12th Avenue Access Shaft and the start of excavation for the Hudson County Access Shaft, along with construction of a marine platform for work associated with the Manhattan tunnel, continued ground stabilization in the Hudson River, and site clearing ahead of the New Jersey Surface Alignment Project.

While active construction will resume, the commission said two major procurements — the Hudson River Tunnel and New Jersey Surface Alignment contracts — will remain on hold until the agency regains access to the full $15 billion in federal grants and loans it says have been paused since Oct. 1, 2025. The contracts had been scheduled for award in late 2025 or early 2026.

The commission said more than $1 billion has been invested in construction since ground broke in 2023 and said it is continuing to work with federal funding partners while pursuing options to restore full funding to keep the project on scope, schedule and budget.

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