New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her vision for a Penn Station on Wednesday, pledging to overhaul what she called a depressing depot and make vast improvements to the areas surrounding the rail hub.
Amtrak and North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), the labor organization representing more than 3 million skilled craft professionals, announced today a landmark national agreement to promote a strong workforce pipeline of U.S. union construction workers to build and expand America’s passenger rail.
The NJ Transit Board of Directors has approved a nearly $1.6 billion contract to replace an aging bridge over the Hackensack River along the Northeast Corridor.
In the first step of the statewide rail expansion program, travelers from downtown Richmond are now able to get on early-morning trains in downtown to Washington, D.C., New York City and other stops along the Northeast Corridor.
Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey and New York want the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to put a new Hudson River railroad tunnel on the express track.