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Feds hope to save Hudson Tunnel project
Updated at 12:38 PM today
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TRENTON, N.J. (WABC) -- Don't write off the nation's biggest construction project just yet.
The creation of a train tunnel from New Jersey into Manhattan may not be dead, at least the federal government hopes not.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is in New Jersey Friday, hoping to persuade Governor Chris Christie to save the project and thousands of jobs.
The project was budgeted for $8.7 billion and would create two new rail lines from the Frank Lautenberg Station in Secaucus to a new station at 34th Street in Manhattan.
But Christie announced Thursday that he was shutting down construction over concerns of cost overruns and New Jersey's inability to cover the bills.
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