Administration Casts Doubt on Financing for Hudson Rail Tunnel
- New York and New Jersey see project as vital to the region
- Letter questions a commitment to share $12.7 billion cost
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The Trump administration on Friday cast doubt over whether it would help finance the $12.7 billion Gateway commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
In a letter, K. Jane Williams, deputy administrator of the U.S. Federal Transit Administration, said that the federal government had never agreed to pay half of the project, with the two states contributing the rest.