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The New York Times reports:
For the last 20 years, the plan to dig new train tunnels under the Hudson River — among the most ambitious and important transportation projects in the country — has been repeatedly tripped up by political wrangling.
So when the governors of New York and New Jersey agreed on Tuesday to split evenly their share of the $14 billion first phase of the project — known as Gateway — the announcement struck a familiar note.
After all, two different governors had reached a similar agreement in 2015, when Chris Christie was New Jersey’s chief executive and Andrew M. Cuomo was still in charge in Albany. To say that progress on the tunnels has been slow since then would be an understatement.
NorthJersey.com reports:
The governors signed a memorandum of understanding that will kick-start phase one of the pricey but emergent infrastructure project intended to assuage long commutes to and from New York’s Penn Station that have suffered constant bottlenecks ever since Superstorm Sandy ravaged one of the Hudson River’s rail lines, forcing NJ Transit and Amtrak often to share a single tunnel with only one track in each direction.
Repairing the tunnels under the Hudson is critical for our economy, but Donald Trump used Gateway as a political hostage.
Now we have a plan to deliver funding and an expedited timetable for Gateway.
For Gateway—The #AmericanJobsPlan is the light at the end of the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/BAAqDWvMpO
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 28, 2021
New York and New Jersey have crossed a major bridge toward building the Gateway Hudson Tunnel. https://t.co/tzklawCCWy
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) July 6, 2022