Drilling to begin on Gateway Tunnel rail project after federal judge nixed Trump funding pause earlier this year

Drilling is set to begin on the Gateway Tunnel rail project after a federal judge overturned a previous funding freeze. The project aims to construct a new rail passage beneath the Hudson River.
Nearly a year after the Trump administration announced a freeze on funding for the Gateway Tunnel project, the effort to build a new two-tube rail passage beneath the Hudson River took a major step forward on Monday. The Gateway Development Commission (GDC), the New York and New Jersey-run entity overseeing the project, launched the first...
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