Breaking Through the

Expanded rail system offers smart solutions with environmental benefi ts

Just as a highway can become congested, so, too, can a transit rail system. The main commuter transit system between New York and New Jersey relies on two 100-year-old tunnels beneath the Hudson River. About 170,000 passengers take this commuter rail system from New Jersey to New York every day, and after a century of use, the system has reached its capacity, forcing many passengers to use less effi cient means to access Manhattan.

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The rock, soil and clay excavated for the tunnels will be used to convert an existing brownfi eld and cap and close out a landfi ll.

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The ARC team began the project in June 2009, with the construction of a railway underpass in New Jersey.

Work on the tunnel portion of the project will begin in summer 2010.

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