Posted Jan 21, 2026, 6:19 PM
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New Yorker for life
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Borough of Jersey
Posts: 56,199
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Just more noise as usual. As long as work continues, that’s all that really matters.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025...unnel-project/
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…..an audit last week by the inspector general for Amtrak gave a generally clean bill for the multi-billion Hudson Tunnel project, even as President Donald Trump threatened to end its federal funding.
The audit described “notable progress” in the Hudson Tunnel Project, a $16 billion effort to build a new passenger rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River and repair a separate tunnel, despite Trump’s claim he “terminated” it.
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”We found that Amtrak has made notable progress meeting its near-term obligations for the Hudson Tunnel Project, but the company could reduce its risks and help improve overall project performance by clarifying its role with external partners, engaging all relevant internal stakeholders, and strengthening its document management system,” the inspector general said in a statement.
The Hudson Tunnel Project specifically is a two-tube effort with two halves: a new tunnel, estimated to be done in 2035, and rehabilitation for an existing tunnel, expected by 2038.
The first of two mammoth boring machines – giant drills to dig the tunnels – is set to arrive in January. Drilling will commence in the Palisades, below which the machines — 28 feet wide, 500 feet long and 1,700 tons apiece — will gnaw through sub-surface rock and earth.
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In either case, the implications have more to do with Penn Station than it does with the platform construction here.
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