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https://www.silive.com/news/2026/03/here...-tunnel-between-new-york-new-jersey.html

Here’s when first massive boring machine will start carving tunnel between New York, New Jersey


Mar. 26, 2026
By Jillian Delaney

A massive tunnel boring machine is preparing to carve a tunnel between New York and New Jersey after President Donald Trump halted progress in early January.

Both New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill sued the U.S. Department of Transportation, resulting in a win for both states: As of late February 2026, the Gateway Tunnel is back on track.

“Hundreds of pieces of the first tunnel boring machines are set to be assembled, the slurry wall, at the Hudson County Shaft, is finished creating the dry, protected shell where future work will proceed,” Sherill said during a Gateway Development Commission meeting Monday. ”And most important, 1,000 workers are back on the job. It’s a big deal."

According to Advance/SILive.com sister site, NJ.com, the first of the four machines is already being assembled in North Bergen. Another is en route to Weehawkin, according to Gateway CEO Tom Prendergast — the mind behind the technology making the tunneling possible.

On the New York side of things, tunnel boxes have already been put into place “between the High Line and Hudson Yards … and is connected to the first and second tunnel boxes to Penn Station.”

As for when the North Bergen boring machine will be activated? Prendergast predicted it will occur in the second or third quarter of the year, with an occasion planned to celebrate its commencement.

“There’s a big event for that, because we want to show the whole world that this is a specific piece of equipment that is going to bore through the Palisades,” Prendergast said.