This forum will be for issues that don't belong specifically to one NYC area transit agency, but several. For instance, intra-MTA proposals or MTA-wide issues, which may involve both Metro-North Railroad (MNRR) and the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). Other intra-agency examples: through running such as the now discontinued MNRR-NJT Meadowlands special. Topics which only concern one operating agency should remain in their respective forums.
This forum will be for issues that don't belong specifically to one NYC area transit agency, but several. For instance, intra-MTA proposals or MTA-wide issues, which may involve both Metro-North Railroad (MNRR) and the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). Other intra-agency examples: through running such as the now discontinued MNRR-NJT Meadowlands special. Topics which only concern one operating agency should remain in their respective forums.
A consequential contract is approved to kick-start the Gateway rail tunnel project
The Gateway Development Commission board approved an agreement with its project delivery partner Wednesday — awarding what is arguably one of the single most consequential contracts required to deliver the $16.1 billion Hudson River tunnels project.
A joint venture of Parsons Corporation, Arcadis of New York Inc. and Mace North America Limited — what will be known as MPA Delivery Partners — was chosen from a shortlist of three options to provide project management for the program, which includes building a new two-track rail tunnel under the Hudson between North Jersey and Manhattan and then rehabilitating the 110-year-old two-track tube still in use, which was seriously damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
MPA Delivery Partners will be "the arms and legs" that enable the Gateway Development Commission to "continue to move this project in high gear as we prepare for heavy construction to start," commission co-chairs Balpreet Grewal-Virk and Alicia Glen said in a joint statement.
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Gateway Tunnel project is one step closer to getting massive federal grant
The $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project is a decision away from receiving a record-setting $6.8 billion federal grant.
The Gateway Development Commission, the bi state agency overseeing design and building of the tunnel, submitted the final documents needed for the Federal Transit Administration to decide on awarding the grant.
“On March 30, we submitted the last documents to the FTA for us to reach a full-funding grant agreement,” Kris Kolluri, Gateway Development Commission CEO, said at the commission’s Tuesday meeting. “We are on track to secure all the funding for the tunnel.”
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