New York and New Jersey: Fighting Over Funding for Gateway Doesn’t End With Spending Bill

By Mark Niquette, Bloomberg Politics; March 23, 2018 The battle over designating money for the Northeast Corridor rail project is…

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Trains, transit get windfall in Washington omnibus budget bill

By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 22, 2018 MAKE IT RAIN:…

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The Gateway Project Doesn’t Need Trump’s Approval

By Alon Levy, City Lab; March 21, 2018 Holding up the spending bill in Congress this week: a fight over…

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Congressional leaders etch deal to make $540M available to Gateway

By DANA RUBINSTEIN, RYAN HUTCHINS and LAUREN GARDNER, Politico; March 21, 2018 Congressional leaders have agreed to include $540 million…

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How New Jersey Transit will spend its $242 M windfall from Governor Murphy

By Larry Higgs, NJ.com; March 20, 2018 There will be more bus drivers, train engineers, and conductors. Bus and rail…

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New York Post Editorial: Now we need a Plan B for the Hudson tunnel project

By The Editorial Board, New York Post; March 20, 2018 Cross-Hudson train commuters better hope there’s a Plan B for…

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Still no Washington resolution to Gateway Tunnel project funding

Will Uber fatality shift the debate on self-driving cars? By TANYA SNYDER, With help from Stephanie Beasley and Ted Hesson,…

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New Jersey Governor Murphy, New York Governor Cuomo share blame for Gateway funding woes

An Opinion By Larry Penner, Transportation Historian and Advocate, ROI; March 19, 2018 Previous governors of New York and New…

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Gateway Overseers Say New New York City Rail-Commuter Tunnel Is Inevitable

By Henry Goldman, Bloomberg; March 16, 2018 The $12.7 billion Gateway commuter-rail tunnel opposed by President Donald Trump will get…

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New York Opinion – Gateway’s the wrong way: A $31 billion tunnel project won’t get built; New York should sell Trump on a cheaper, smarter plan

By The Editorial Board; New York Daily News; March 17, 2018 Ok. Ok. This is heresy in New York, but…

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Trying to open the Gateway

By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo, Tanya Snyder and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 16, 2017 TRYING…

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United States DOT Secretary Chao: Public campaign trying to ‘bully’ DOT into funding Gateway project

By Mallory Shelbourne, The Hill; March 14, 2018 Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Wednesday said a public campaign is being waged to…

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Tunnel to the other side

By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo, Tanya Snyder and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 15, 2018 TUNNEL…

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New Jersey Transit Bans All Beverages Over the Weekend for St. Patrick’s Day Parade

From NBC 10 Philadelphia; March 13, 2018 New Jersey Transit will “strictly” enforce a no beverage of any kind rule over…

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Trump’s tunnel vision

By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo, Tanya Snyder and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 9, 2018 TRUMP’S…

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Now taking donations in Washington for infrastructure

By LAUREN GARDNER, With help from Stephanie Beasley, Brianna Gurciullo and Tanya Snyder, Politico Morning Transportation; March 8, 2018 NOW…

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New York and New Jersey: Gateway Corp. talks with private investors about financing, project management

By Tom Bergeron, ROI; March 8, 2018 While Gov. Phil Murphy said the state is working with officials from President…

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Closing, and reopening, the Gateway drawbridge

By LAUREN GARDNER and TANYA SNYDER, With help from Brianna Gurciullo and Stephanie Beasley, Politico Morning Transportation; March 7, 2018…

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U.S. says New York, New Jersey must pay more for ‘Gateway’ project

By David Shepardson, Reuters; March 6, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York and New Jersey must shoulder more of the…

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Rutgers University Leads Rail Safety Research and Education in New Jersey and New York

A press release from Rutgers University – New Brunswick; March 6, 2018 Professor seeks “helluva (better) way to run a…

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New York and New Jersey Editorial Opinion: Call it the Trump Tunnel and scale back Gateway to get it done

By The Editorial Board, New York Daily News; March 6, 2018 President Trump gyrates wildly on immigration, guns — you…

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A New York opinion – Get serious on Gateway: 
Cut the cost

By William B. Galligan, Crain’s New York Business; March 5, 2018 It’s time to get realistic about the proposed rail…

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New Jersey Transit ‘most at risk’ of missing safety deadline, which could end your commute to New York City

By Jonathan D. Salant, NJ.com; March 1, 2018 WASHINGTON — New Jersey Transit is one of the two northeast commuter railroads…

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Report: USDOT Secretary Chao backs away from Hudson tunnel funding plan

From Progressive Railroading Magazine; March 2, 2018 U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told a U.S. Senate committee yesterday that federal…

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Trump Said to Tell Republicans Not to Approve Hudson Rail Tunnel Funds

By Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink, and Billy House, Bloomberg Politics; March 3, 2018 Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer urged Donald…

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