Fritsch said train ridership in the region is rising and approaching 50 percent of prepandemic levels. The loss of one of the tubes, even temporarily, would reduce the number of trains that could reach Penn Station during the morning rush by 75 percent, crippling the daily commute for the 150,000 passengers who rode every weekday between New Jersey and New York before the pandemic.Įven after the coronavirus pandemic kept most commuters home for more than a year, the number of trains that Amtrak and New Jersey Transit, a commuter railroad, run through the tunnel each day is not much lower, said Brian Fritsch, manager of the Build Gateway Now Campaign at the Regional Plan Association, a research and policy group. The Biden administration’s embrace of the project - known as Gateway - is a sharp reversal from the Trump administration’s obstructionist stance. If one of the two tubes of the 110-year-old tunnel had to be closed for repairs, “you would be feeling the economic impact all the way back in Indiana, where I come from,” Mr. The long-delayed project, with an estimated cost of $11.6 billion, is vitally important to the national economy, he said at a news conference in Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Buttigieg sounded convinced of the urgency of completing a second tunnel.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg got a close-up look at the crumbling state of New York City’s most critical rail link on Monday and vowed that the Biden administration was committed to getting a new train tunnel built under the Hudson River.Īfter touring the decaying 110-year-old Hudson tunnel in an Amtrak car crammed full of elected officials from New York and New Jersey, Mr. You see the consequences of seawater that came in accelerated by Superstorm Sandy, and further degrading the infrastructure there.” You can start to see some of the rebar exposed under it. You go into that tunnel, and you look up and you see the concrete falling. But the impacts of this corridor are so, so great that if there were a loss of service, if one of these tunnels were to go out of service, you would be feeling the economic impact all the way back in Indiana, where I come from. It’s vitally important to the Northeast Corridor. And I do mean for the United States of America.
We in the Senate and the House will be able to procure in the two Build Back Better bills we are doing the traditional infrastructure bipartisan bill, and in the budget reconciliation bill, the billions of dollars we need to build Gateway.” “We just saw in the Hudson River tunnels, the bridges and the other parts of what makes up the Gateway, future Gateway project, critical infrastructure for the United States of America. What we call our visit today, and subsequent actions, is the Gateway turnaround.
“Today, we can announce that the hostage that was Gateway Tunnel under the previous administration has been set free, and we are on a rapid path to get it done.
Transcript Buttigieg Calls Gateway Project ‘Critical Infrastructure’ for America Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, voiced commitment to completing the long-delayed project to construct a new train tunnel under the Hudson River.
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