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May 15, 2026

One of the largest modern US infrastructure projects will soon burrow toward New York City

  • The $16 billion project calls for giant drilling machines nearly the length of two football fields to tunnel beneath the Hudson River.
    • By PHILIP MARCELO
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Andres Kudacki [enlarge]
    A worker secures exposed rock along a wall at the Palisades Tunnel Project, part of the Gateway Program.

    NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — When the original train tunnel beneath the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey was built more than a century ago, workers toiled with picks and shovels from each side until eventually meeting in the middle.


     
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