Hundreds of thousands of commuters travel through the 114-year-old passenger rail tunnel daily, underscoring need to replace and modernize this vital corridor damaged during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy NEW YORK – Today, one of the largest infrastructure projects in American history took a huge step forward with billions of dollars in support from the Biden-Harris Administration and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Hudson River Tunnel project will construct a critical new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey along a vital economic corridor – just one area of focus for investment across the country as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s $66 billion investment in passenger rail. It represents the largest project in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). (....)