USA Today: Big Transit Projects Planned for Big Apple (NY)

From USA Today:  

In the competition for federal stimulus dollars, New Jersey and New York are brandishing a very big shovel.  Work is set to begin this spring on a $9 billion train tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan, the first new link between the two in more than a half-century.  The nearly 3.5-mile tunnel will more than double the number of commuter trains that can cross into New York City. Trains now use a 100-year-old two-track tunnel that is at capacity, meaning that trains sometimes must wait their turn to cross into the city.  The tunnel is one of several multibillion-dollar transit projects in New York City angling for an infusion of federal money, including a new subway line and rail tunnels to bring trains from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal.  "You'd have to go back to the 1920s to see a period of so much transit being built," says Sam Schwartz, a New York transportation planner known as "Gridlock Sam."