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Building New Rail Tunnels Under the Hudson River

Building New Rail Tunnels Under the Hudson River

Update: 2025-10-01

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Decades in the making, the Hudson River Tunnel Project is adding two railway tunnels between New Jersey and New York to serve Amtrak and New Jersey Transit riders. These tunnels will increase rail capacity and add critical redundancy to the network. To learn about this project, we’re talking with Thomas Prendergast, CEO of the Gateway

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Building New Rail Tunnels Under the Hudson River

Building New Rail Tunnels Under the Hudson River

Professor Joseph Schofer, Thomas Herman, and Marion Sours