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NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Construction began Monday on the nation’s largest transportation project, an $8.7 billion rail tunnel into New York City that’s expected to reduce the time it takes commuters to reach Manhattan from New Jersey by several minutes.
The 8.8-mile-long fourth rail tunnel under the Hudson River will require the removal of 2 million cubic yards of rock and soil — roughly a third as much as the Hoover Dam — and will take eight years to build.
