December 19, 2018---North Bergen--Governor Andrew M. Cuomo tours the North River Rail Tunnel that connects New Jersey and New York Wednesday night December 19, 2018. The North River Tunnels are a pair of tunnels that carry Amtrak and New Jersey Transit rail lines under the Hudson River between Weehawken, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, New York City. As of March 2018, up to $541 million for the Gateway Project, a program to build two additional rail tunnels under the Hudson River, was provided in the Consolidated Appropriations Act. (Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
NEW YORK – The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) board voted to make the GDC the project sponsor for the complete Hudson Tunnel Project.
Officials said the move is a critical milestone in receiving the billions of dollars in federal taxpayer money it needs.
The Project Sponsor is responsible for overseeing and completing the project on time and within budget, applying for and receiving Federal loans, and ensuring that the project meets all of its responsibilities under Federal requirements.
With the Commission’s resolution, the GDC will now work with the current Project Sponsor, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to officially notify the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) of the change and take the necessary actions to complete the transfer of sponsorship.
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WASHINGTON – Anticipating its busiest travel week of the year, Amtrak is planning ahead for the Thanksgiving holiday and encouraging passengers to do the same. During the week, Amtrak will operate every available car and is scheduling extra trains to accommodate the extra passengers. On what is anticipated to be the heaviest single travel day of the year for Amtrak — the Wednesday before Thanksgiving — the railroad expects ridership to reach as many as 125,000 passengers system-wide – a 70 percent increase over the 74,000 passengers Amtrak carried on an average Wednesday last year. In preparation for the holiday
NJ Transit is not equitably meeting the needs of the state’s diverse counties and should be split into an agency for the northern part of the state and one for the southern portion.
