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Gateway Shortlists Four Teams for New Jersey Surface Work on $16B Hudson Tunnel
The route crosses other railroads, a street and wetlands, so the contract package includes construction of bridges and a viaduct.
Rendering courtesy Gateway Development Commission
The Gateway Development Commission shortlisted four teams to compete for the New Jersey surface alignment portion of the $16.1-billion Hudson Tunnel Project.
The design-build contract package covers construction of about 7,450 ft of new trackway adjacent to the Northeast Corridor in Secaucus and North Bergen, N.J., leading toward the future tunnel portal. Its scope includes construction of a retaining wall, bridges over a road and other railroads, a viaduct crossing wetlands and other related work such as utility relocations.
The shortlisted teams include George Harms Construction Co. Inc. with Hardesty & Hanover LLC; Halmar International LLC with Jacobs Civil Consultants Inc.; Skanska Creamer-Sanzari NJSA JV, which includes Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc. with Creamer-Sanzari JV and HNTB Corp.; and Walsh Ferreira JV, which includes Walsh Construction Co. LLC with Ferreira Construction Co. Inc. and Mott MacDonald NY Inc.
Gateway is inviting the shortlisted teams to respond to a request for proposals. Leaders with the commission—which New York and New Jersey jointly formed to lead passenger rail infrastructure projects between Manhattan and Newark, N.J.—have said they aim for work on this contract to begin next year.
The Hudson Tunnel Project is adding a new rail crossing under the river between northern New Jersey and New York City's Pennsylvania Station, and to rehabilitate the existing North River Tunnel. Gateway has divided the work into multiple contract packages.
Earlier last month, Gateway shortlisted three teams for the contract to build the center portion of the tunnel. The commission’s board also voted to approve a $1.2-billion design-build contract with Frontier-Kemper-Tutor Perini JV for the Manhattan end of the tunnel at their Feb. 3 meeting.
Work is already underway on some portions of the project, including preparing the area between the planned New Jersey portal and the end of the surface alignment contract package.
Gateway anticipates the new tunnel opening in 2035. The full project including rehabilitation of the existing tunnel is scheduled to complete in 2038.
