(The following appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on February 14, 2011.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak has included $50 million in its fiscal year 2012 budget request for preliminary engineering and design work for the planned new rail line tunnels under the Hudson River.
The Gateway Tunnel project, announced last week in Newark and estimated to cost $13.5 billion, would construct a second set of tunnels to Penn Station in New York, build a “Penn Station south” annex in New York, replace the 100-year old Portal Bridge across the Hackensack River, and add two more tracks to nine miles of the Northeast Corridor Line between Secaucus and New York.
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