Gateway Development Commission is dividing civil works on the tunnel portion of the project from one contract into four to encourage more competitive bids.
Long-awaited project includes $1.8 billion to rehabilitate existing North River tunnel between New York and New Jersey and $9.8 billion for a replacement.
Squeezed between two states with different geologies and between above-and-below clearance limits due to marine and air traffic, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge, which spans Staten Island’s Arthur Kill strait, represents the agency’s first use of a public-private partnership on a bridge project.
