Decades in the making, the Hudson River Tunnel Project is adding two railway tunnels between New Jersey and New York to serve Amtrak and New Jersey Transit riders. These tunnels will increase rail capacity and add critical redundancy to the network. To learn about this project, we’re talking with Thomas Prendergast, CEO of the Gateway Development Commission, which coordinates the work. Before joining the Gateway Development Commission, he was Executive Vice President of the infrastructure consulting firm AECOM, and prior to that, president, chairman, and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the entire New York City transit system; president of the Long Island Rail Road; and CEO of the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority. Tom is an engineering graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago.