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(North Bergen, NJ) – With five projects under construction and two tunnel boring machines on their way to New Jersey, progress continues on the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project, despite a two-month federal payment freeze.
Work has progressed, with the early Gateway project to build a new bridge to carry Routes 1&9-Tonnelle Avenue over the route of the new tunnel in North Bergen almost complete. The GDC reported significant progress on the Hudson Yards Tunnel box and other projects on the New York side of the Hudson at the December 15th commission meeting.
The first tunnel boring machine is expected to arrive from Germany in New Jersey in January, be assembled in North Bergen and begin drilling through the Palisades to Weehawken next March. That tunnel won’t be completed until 2035. Part of the hold-up is with federal officials who need to finish a hastily ordered review of the project and resume paying for the project they committed to in July 2024.
