Feds pledge $6.9B for Gateway project, clearing path for Hudson River rail tunnel
Alfonso A. Castillo, newsday.com
In the works for more than a decade, Gateway aims to construct a 2½-mile rail tunnel that will carry Amtrak and NJ Transit trains between Penn Station and the Secaucus station in New Jersey, and also rehabilitate an existing 110-year-old tunnel across the Hudson River that was badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy.