Rail tunnel advocates say politics won’t derail project
NEW YORK — A massive project to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River won’t fall prey to the type of interstate political spats that have bedeviled other large infrastructure plans in the New York region, some of the major figures behind the project said Monday.
New Jersey Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Amtrak Chairman Tony Coscia attended a panel discussion that provided an update on the so-called Gateway project, the $20 billion-plus plan to build a new tunnel, expand New York’s Penn Station and make other significant improvements along the aging, congested rail line between Newark, New Jersey and New York.