.POTUS visited NYC to announce a huge federal infrastructure grant for the Gateway Tunnel project — funding a concrete casing underneath Hudson Yards that will eventually lead Amtrak trains from Penn Station to a new tube under the Hudson River.
concrete casing underneath Hudson Yards that will eventually lead Amtrak trains from Penn Station to a new tube under the Hudson River.
; Section 3 will run diagonally from 11th Avenue to 30th Street, and will connect to the prior two sections completed in 2013 and 2016.to construct new tunnels under the Hudson for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest passenger rail line. “It’s the busiest corridor in the United States of America and one of the busiest in the world,” Biden noted. “And a problem anywhere along the line means delays up-and-down the east coast for folks trying to get to work, businesses trying to ship goods, travelers trying to get to see their families.”
Governor Kathy Hochul and her New Jersey counterpart Phil Murphy feted Biden as the Gateway project’s savior.“We’re excited because this is a milestone. This means things are starting to happen,” Governor Kathy Hochul said before the president took the stage. “No more talk. We had four presidents, five governors, had a lot of talk.”
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