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December 2022
- Senate confirms 4 to NJ transportation boards. Are any of them actual commuters? (NorthJersey.com)
- TESTIMONY: GDC Commissioner Nominee Amy M. Rosen
- Hudson River rail tunnel construction in NYC starting in 2023 with $292M federal grant, Schumer says (NY Daily News)
- Gateway project at Penn Station gets $300M federal grant to build critical box tunnel beneath Hudson Yards (Newsday)
November 2022
September 2022
July/August 2022
- Buttigieg Helps Break Ground on New Portal North Bridge Construction (InsiderNJ)
- After years of delays construction expected to begin on new Portal North Bridge (WNYC)
- Portal North Bridge groundbreaking signals start of new era (NJBiz)
- New Gateway Tunnel boss digs in to build an organization the feds could invest billions in (nj.com)
May/June 2022
- Amtrak advances North River Tunnel remediation work by leveraging existing maintenance windows (Mass Transit)
- Amtrak awards contract to Arup for preliminary design of railroad infrastructure to support New York Penn Station expansion (Mass Transit)
- N.Y. Gateway Project Gets a Plug From Biden Infrastructure Chief (Bloomberg)
March/April 2022
- Amtrak chairman: Don’t let this moment pass. It’s time to build Gateway. (nj.com)
- Save on gas, save on time. The Gateway Hudson Tunnel would do both. (nj.com)
- Amtrak Portal Bridge replacement construction gets green light (Fox5 NY)
- Biden’s proposed budget includes $100M for Gateway Tunnel (nj.com)
- First round of federal funding for Gateway earmarked in Biden’s budget recommendations (NorthJersey.com)
January/February 2022
November/December 2021
- Infrastructure bill secures billions for long-delayed Hudson River tunnel (New York Post)
- Amtrak Works to Keep the NYC Rail Tunnel Open Until Its Gateway Project Is Done (Bloomberg)
- NYC’s Gateway Tunnel Gets Final Federal Construction Permit (Bloomberg)
- Amtrak Wins Major Funding Boost in Infrastructure Act (Engineering News-Record)
September/October 2021
July/August 2021
- Big infrastructure bill could be good news for Gateway Tunnel project crucial to N.J. (nj.com)
- Amtrak chairman: Don’t let this moment pass. It’s time to build Gateway. (nj.com)
- Buttigieg visits N.J. commuter towns to pitch $1 trillion infrastructure bill (nj.com) At Long Last, a New Rail Tunnel Under the Hudson River Can Be Built (New York Times)
- Aging rail tunnels into NYC wreaked havoc for commuters last year with 210 hours of delays (nj.com)
May/June 2021
- Gateway tunnel between NY and NJ lands critical federal approval (northjersey.com) Gateway commissioners are ‘extremely optimistic’ about future of long-stalled tunnel plan (NorthJersey.com)
- At Long Last, a New Rail Tunnel Under the Hudson River Can Be Built (New York Times)
- Feds Green Light $11.6B Hudson River Tunnel Project With Record of Decision (Engineering News-Record)
March 2021
- Gateway commissioners are ‘extremely optimistic’ about future of long-stalled tunnel plan (NorthJersey.com)
- ‘Gateway is going to be a priority’ (ROI-NJ)
- Federal Transit Administration Gives New Momentum to Hudson Tunnel Project (Engineering News-Record)
January/February 2021
September/October 2020
July/August 2020
May/June 2020
- Will We Ever Get Our Gateway Tunnel? (NJ Monthly)
March 2020
- With Hudson River tunnel stalled, Amtrak left at the station again — and that’s bad for Baltimore (Baltimore Sun Editorial)
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
- Money isn’t the main hurdle for the Gateway project. Training hundreds of engineers is (NorthJersey.com)
- 9 big New York infrastructure projects (City & State NY)
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