NEW YORK—The Gateway Development Commission awarded on Monday the $1.29-billion contract for the Hudson Tunnel Project tunnel boring package to Traylor/Walsh/Skanska JV. The joint venture will bore the section of the new tunnel tubes under the Hudson River and install the tunnel liner and floor—called “Package 1C: The Hudson River Tunnel Section.”

With the award of this contract, six of the ten construction packages that make up the Hudson Tunnel Project are now in progress or completed. Together with Package 1A: The Palisades Tunnel, and Package 1B: The Manhattan Tunnel, which are already under construction, contracts for all the tunnel boring and construction of the new tunnel’s core and shell—the entire heavy civil portion of the Hudson Tunnel Project— are now awarded or in progress. The work is expected to begin in the coming months.