Items Tagged with 'Amtrak'

Crews with Skanska and E-J Electric toil deep under Manhattan and the East River to completely rebuild a pair of two-tube rail tunnels.

After months of delays, Amtrak and US DOT names joint venture as master developer to inherit active-rail construction, single-level concourse conversion and complex staging beneath Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

Skanska’s $1.06-billion MBTA award will replace aging rail bridges at Boston’s North Station while keeping commuter and Amtrak service running.

Even as Gateway tunnel construction resumes after a court-ordered release of federal funds, officials warn the $16B Northeast Corridor megaproject could face another shutdown within months if reimbursements again stall.

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order reinstatement of federal funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project took effect Feb. 12 when the federal government missed a deadline to file a formal appeal to the motion.

A federal judge temporarily paused her own order unfreezing federal funds for the Hudson Tunnel, allowing time for the federal government to submit a formal appeal later this week and leaving the $16-billion megaproject in limbo.

The judicial order temporarily prevents the U.S. Dept of Transportation from withholding billions of dollars in federally awarded funds from the critical NY-NJ rail crossing. 

Amtrak's shortlist names three finalists for New York City’s Penn Station redevelopment. 

George Harms Construction Co.'s objection to project labor agreement for a bid package on the N.J.-N.Y. tunnel project will not halt the bidding process, a federal judge has ruled,

George Harms Construction Co. challenges a project labor agreement on a key design-build package because it bars a non-building trades union from representing workers.