Tunnel emerges as issue in Ground Zero debate

With less than a week left before Gov. Pataki’s deadline for negotiations over Ground Zero, a rail link to Midtown from New Jersey has emerged as a major point in the possible final agreement between World Trade Center site leaseholder Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority, which owns the site. The Trans-Hudson Express tunnel, with an estimated cost of $6 billion, would run under the Hudson River and would double New Jersey Transit’s capacity into Midtown. more [Sun]