FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 30, 2026
Contact:
Michelle Peal
(908) 313-4178
Joint statement from New Jersey LCV Interim Executive Director, Allison McLeod and New York LCV President, Julie Tighe about the delay in funding for the Gateway Tunnel project.
The following is a joint statement from New Jersey LCV Interim Executive Director, Allison McLeod and New York LCV President, Julie Tighe about the delay in funding for the Gateway Tunnel project.
“New Jersey LCV and New York LCV strongly support the Gateway Tunnel Project, a once-in-a-generation investment that is essential to the economic vitality, climate resilience, and public safety of the entire Northeast Corridor -- a project now well under construction and being built with local union labor. The existing Hudson River tunnels are more than a century old, vulnerable to failure, and already a major bottleneck for millions of riders and billions of dollars in economic activity each year. Gateway will modernize critical infrastructure, create thousands of good-paying union jobs, and significantly reduce climate pollution by improving reliable, high-capacity rail service.
We urge the Trump Administration to continue fully funding the Gateway Tunnel Project and to stop unnecessary delays that only increase costs and risk catastrophic service disruptions. This project is not partisan—it is a shared regional priority that benefits New Jersey, New York, and the nation as a whole. The time to move forward is now.”