With federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel committed, officials talked about what happens now to build the nation's biggest infrastructure project.
Construction work on the Gateway Tunnel project on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. With an announcement by legislators that the proposed $16 billion Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York“Raising the money necessary is extremely , building it is just as hard. We now have to build it,” said Anthony R. Coscia, Amtrak board chairman and Gateway Development Corporation vice president, in an interview.
Celebrating the grant has to be “tempered with the reality that we are building” the largest infrastructure project in the country, he said. “I think we’ve lived with the inferior system for so long, we can’t fully appreciate what a modernized system will look like,” he said. “This moment has been many years in the making—jump started under President Obama, the project was brought to a standstill under the Trump Administration,” he said. “But thanks to President Biden and a Democratic majority in the Senate and House, we finally have the money needed to build the Hudson River Tunnels and complete Gateway.”“Time is not our friend,” Coscia said. “Time increases costs.”
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