Posted Sep 28, 2012, 9:36 PM
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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TION/120929888
Schumer vows to jump-start tunnel project
By Andrew J. Hawkins
September 28, 2012
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Amtrak's Gateway Tunnel project to link New York and New Jersey received a crucial boost Friday from Sen. Charles Schumer, who said the plan to construct a third rail line under the Hudson River was inching closer to reality. Mr. Schumer said with enough federal funding and all the relevant players on board, the project could break ground as early as the end of 2013. Usually it takes years before work can begin on such a complex, multi-billion dollar effort.
A new urgency has been brought to the project, Mr. Schumer said, since Amtrak's engineers determined that the best place to construct Gateway (which would have one tunnel in each direction) was directly under the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side. The Related Companies is expected to break ground on the massive, mixed-use project late this year. Both Related and Long Island Rail Road, the right-of-way property owners underneath Hudson Yards, are supportive of Gateway, he said.
"That means we need to build these tunnels now," the senior senator said. "We can't wait for the rest of the project to be formulated or nothing will happen."
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