NJ Transit Rail Commuters Face Challenges Above and Below Ground

At its first board meeting since Amtrak released a grim report detailing the post-Sandy conditions of its tunnels, New Jersey Transit officials tried to manage agita about how future tunnel closures might affect commutes. "We just got the report also," said Ronnie Hakim, NJ Transit's executive director. "We will obviously be having discussions with Amtrak about any scheduled work." The engineering report calls for closing the damaged tunnels, one at a time, for extensive repairs. Amtrak says it's preparing to close one of the East River tunnels as early as 2016, but won't close the Hudson River tunnels until a new tunnel is built. (That new tunnel is known as the Gateway Project, and Amtrak hopes to build it in the next decade.)

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