With COVID-19 economic impacts accelerating in the U.S., the Trump Administration has decided that a long-stalled Northeast U.S. rail infrastructure project could be one stimulus.
In a key step for the project caught for years in federal-state funding battles, including with the current administration, the Federal Transit Administration approved on June 19 nearly $767 million in U.S. funding for the Portal North Bridge replacement in northern New Jersey to advance to the engineering phase and start construction.