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U.S. Reverses Guidance That Impeded Funding for Hudson Rail Tunnel 02/16/2021 | 05:36pm EDT Send by mail : Message : By Ted Mann WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department on Tuesday rescinded a Trump administration opinion that had effectively blocked federal funding for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and New York City. The DOTs Federal Transit Administration rescinded guidance issued in 2018, which effectively blocked project sponsors from counting fu...

Even as Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao resigned Thursday over Donald Trump’s mob attack on Congress (her hubby is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) her Federal Transit Administration was pumping out money for projects, with Phoenix, Indiana and Kansas City scoring hundreds of millions in grants Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

NEW YORK — It was almost two years into President Donald Trump’s term when Gov. Andrew Cuomo descended beneath the Hudson River to tour the decrepit rail tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey. In a video he would later send to the White House, Cuomo made one plea: fund the Gateway project, a $13 billion proposal to build a new crossing under the river and repair the existing tunnels, which were severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy. “It is probably the critical infrastructure issu...