New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spiked the rail tunnel three weeks ago due to concerns about cost overruns.
Eurotunnel already operates the Channel rail tunnel, and runs the Le Shuttle services.
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Sections of a drill which broke through the roof of a rail tunnel came from a construction site above the ground, accident investigators have found.
And if plans for a rail tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco are finalized, trains could link Europe and Africa by 2025.
One of the last possible routes for an additional rail tunnel into Penn Station will be preserved, even as a thicket of skyscrapers rises above it, U.S. Sen.
In Sweden, English language news website The Local strikes a suitably Nordic note, reporting that workmen digging a rail tunnel under Stockholm have found Mjoelnir, the hammer used in Norse mythology by the thunder god Thor.
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Lord Adonis, the IFG's boss and former Labour Transport Secretary, argued that London would not have had the Olympics, or Crossrail - the multi-billion rail tunnel through the heart of the city - or its congestion charge system, without an elected mayor.
"It's been a century since there was a new rail tunnel under the Hudson, and demand for travel between New Jersey and Manhattan is growing rapidly and quickly exceeding the capacity of existing transit infrastructure, " Mr. Bloomberg said on Wednesday through a spokeswoman.
John Prideaux was the first head of Union Railways, set up by British Rail to push through the Channel Tunnel rail link.
Its report highlighted poor forecasting about passenger demand for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, which had "proved over-optimistic".
In June, copper cabling worth tens of thousands of pounds was stolen from the Channel Tunnel Rail Link construction site.
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The site in question is derelict industrial land bordering Rainham Marshes, close to the route of the proposed Channel Tunnel rail link.
Before any construction work could begin, archaeologists employed by the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project were charged with investigating areas of Kent, Essex and London.
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The pair had different visions, with Watkin, who wanted to build a Channel tunnel rail link to France, seeing the Metropolitan as a mainline railway, while Forbes preferred shorter extensions.
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At the moment, despite its lamentable performance, the company is being rewarded by John Prescott, the transport minister, for taking two big problems off his hands: the Channel tunnel rail link and parts of the London Underground.
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, will open train company Eurostar's new terminal at St Pancras station and also the completed Channel Tunnel Rail Link that has enabled Eurostar trains to start and finish journeys there.
Rail services through the tunnel also remain affected by snow and ice.
It has a key role in building the Channel Tunnel fast rail link and it is also a leading contender to take over the infrastructure contract for London Underground.
CalPERS, the Californian state pension fund, owns nearly 13% of Gatwick airport, while two Canadian funds own the operating rights for the high-speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel.
The new rail link to the Channel Tunnel was as much about regeneration as speeding up journey times, a proviso made by the government in return for grants and financial backing.
The Department for Transport in Britain launched a sale of the rights to operate the high-speed rail line that connects London to the Channel Tunnel.
In 2010, the New Jersey state government canceled the Hudson River rail project that would have built a new tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan.
Declared the European Green Capital in 2010, Stockholm is investing in new construction like the City Line tunnel, which will put commuter rail lines underground and double the number of trains able to move through the city.
For the chance at one day riding in a new train tunnel beneath the Hudson River, commuter rail riders may have a strange entity to thank: superstorm Sandy.
In their 1950s heyday the ferries carried millions of passengers, but these numbers dropped due to competition from rail and the construction of the second Mersey road tunnel in 1971.
The rail-transport projects are political pyramids comparable to the Channel Tunnel.
High Speed One, the operator of the high rail speed link from St Pancras in London to the Channel Tunnel, also confirmed it would be pleased to see rivals use the service - and as importantly, that there was the space for them.
He said that the first quarter of 2008 would confirm the company's progress, thanks to a boost in road traffic through the tunnel and "outstanding" growth from the Eurostar passenger rail service.
Railway historian Basil Jeuda said the tunnel was "an important link in the development of a national rail system".
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