That may be about to change, however, in one of the nation’s most critically important metropolitan areas. Commuters who travel from New Jersey to New York via the rail tunnels under the Hudson River learned last week that the four tracks under the river, which currently carry some 400,000 people to and from Manhattan every weekday, are in need of serious repairs. The two tunnels they pass through were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and they will need to be shut down for a year at a time.
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