Design contract issued for $7.2b Trans-Hudson rail.New Jersey Transit The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is a statewide public transportation system serving the state of New Jersey, and Orange and Rockland counties in New York. It operates bus, light rail, and commuter rail services throughout the state, notably connecting to major , as part of its Access to the Region's Core program, has awarded a contract for preliminary design of the $7.2 billion Trans-Hudson Commuter Rail Tunnel Project to THE Partnership, a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is a planning, engineering, program and construction management organization. The company has been involved in planning and designing some of the world's largest public works projects, such as Boston's Big Dig, Britain's rail system Network Rail; (PB), STV Group and DMJM DMJM Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (architecture, engineering, and construction services firm) Harris. The project includes a new tunnel under the Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). in New Jersey and the Hudson River to midtown Manhattan and an expanded rail station connected to the existing New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Penn Station. Concept plans call for construction of two side-by-side, single-track tunnels of 4.1 miles in length. The tunnel would supplement the existing 100-year-old Amtrak-owned Hudson River tunnel by doubling commuter rail capacity between New Jersey and New York. When completed, it will help meet demand for rail service to New York's Penn Station by expanding peak-period train capacity. As the prime consultant on the project, THE Partnership is responsible for preliminary engineering. Construction on the project is scheduled to begin in 2009 with completion slated for 2016. |
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