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Planning Commission Okays ARC Tunnel

NEW YORK CITY-The City Council will now review the $8.7-billion rail project, a joint venture of the Port Authority and New Jersey Transit.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on June 30, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-A special permit application for the ARC Mass Transit Tunnel, which broke ground in New Jersey earlier this month, got the nod from the New York City Planning Commission Monday. The application for the $8.7-billion, bi-state rail project now goes to the New York City Council for final review.

Jointly sponsored by New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the new rail tunnel will be the first to be built under the Hudson River in nearly a century and is expected to support 6,000 construction jobs annually. Originally conceived with the idea of eventually linking Penn Station and Grand Central Terminals, the project now will comprise a new trans-Hudson tunnel leading to a separate NJT rail facility to be built 175 feet below street level at 34th Street, unconnected to Penn Station trackage, according to NJT documents.

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