The project to build a new $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel has made up for lost time after a two-week shutdown, as Gov. Mikie Sherrill detailed significant progress made on a number of fronts,
“Hundreds of pieces of the first tunnel boring machines are set to be assembled, the slurry wall, at the Hudson County Shaft, is finished creating the dry, protected shell where future work will proceed,” she said at the Gateway Development Commission meeting Monday. ”And most important, 1,000 workers are back on the job. It’s a big deal.”
The progress includes completion of the first of five projects under-construction in New Jersey, a bridge that carries Routes 1 and 9 over the new tunnel mouth…