After meeting with Trump, New York Governor Cuomo unveils new vision for Gateway: cut out Amtrak

By Will Bredderman, Crain’s New York Business; November 28, 2018

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says President Donald Trump is all aboard his new plan to construct new commuter tunnels under the Hudson River—and that they agreed to boot Amtrak and several ancillary projects from Gateway.

The governor held the press conference at his Manhattan office on Wednesday hours after meeting with his fellow Queens native at the White House to discuss the undertaking. What appears to have emerged from the summit is a complete reimagining of what has for several years been called the Gateway Project, a plan billed at $30 billion that would replace and refurbish several pieces of Amtrak infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor between New York and New Jersey.

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