If a new initiative to revitalize the Northeast Corridor goes according to plan, construction on a new Hudson River Tunnel could start in 2025.
Amtrak, the U.S. Department of Transportation and transportation officials from eight state governments and Washington, D.C., released a $117B proposal for improving the critical railway Wednesday, calling it CONNECT NEC 2035, or C35 for short. Of that total, $11B is set to go toward work on the Hudson River Tunnel, which runs between New York and New Jersey, the Associated Press reported.
Renovations on the entire 450-mile corridor, which spans from Washington, D.C., to Boston, would be completed by 2035 under the proposed plan, creating an estimated 1.7 million jobs along the East Coast, improving travel times to New York by nearly a half-hour and increasing the frequency of service for Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains by 33%.
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