Transit Bottleneck

New York area contractors are undertaking an ambitious project for NJ Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to double rail capacity between the two states by adding an additional tunnel and rail line under the Hudson River. The $8.7 billion project, known as the Access to the Region’s

Core, or ARC, will take about eight years to complete and is expected to remove 22,000 cars, or 600,000 vehicular miles, from congested area roadways and prevent 66,000 tons of greenhouse gases from being released into the air each year. “In New Jersey, our choke point is the area where we’re adding these two tracks,” said ARC Project Chief Art Silber. “By doubling capacity through the tunnel and the station, we’ll be able to add more

trains to our existing system.” The current system allows up to 23 trains to run between New York and New Jersey each hour, with no room for further expansion. Also known as THE Tunnel, for

Trans-Hudson Express, the new tunnel will make space for up to 48 trains per hour, and more than 250,000 passengers to New York per day. The project also will add an expanded station under 34th Street in Manhattan, next to the existing Penn Station.

ARC is being funded by a combination of state, federal and Port Authority money.

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