The Gateway Development Commission has awarded the joint venture comprised of Traylor Bros., Walsh Construction and Skanska, the contract to deliver Package 1C: The Hudson River Tunnel Section, a major component of the Hudson Tunnel Project and the broader Gateway Program.
Package 1C will construct the section of the new passenger rail tunnel tubes beneath the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan. The work includes boring two new parallel, single-track tunnels, each approximately 7,250 feet in length, from the Hudson County Access Shaft in Weehawken, New Jersey to the 12th Avenue Access Shaft on Manhattan's West Side. The package also includes tunnel liner and floor installation, construction of nine cross passages connecting the two tunnel tubes, ground stabilization work near the Hudson Bergen Light Rail and permanent underpinning of the Willow Avenue Bridge.
The new tunnel tubes are part of the Hudson Tunnel Project, which will improve reliability for passe
