Published: June 26, 2025
This week marks one month since the long-term outage began for the East River Tunnel Rehab Project. The project is advancing on schedule, and to date there have been no significant unplanned service issues in the three remaining operational tunnel tubes affecting impacted Amtrak, LIRR, and NJT customers.
As we have detailed in past project updates, over the past month Amtrak and contractor crews have completed hardening and mitigation efforts in the Line 1 tunnel and nearly completed decommissioning of existing assets and installation of temporary construction systems.
Over the past week and a half, the project team has:
Over the coming weeks, the project team will wrap up final decommissioning activities and finish installing temporary construction systems, as well as begin removing existing track and third rail.