Transit group mulls over proposals to ease traffic at NYC transport hub

New York

A US$29 billion plan to build a new train tunnel under the Hudson River to Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan should be even more ambitious and allow trains to roll through the station from New Jersey to Long Island, an influential transit-advocacy group said Wednesday.

The group, the Regional Plan Association, also called for the Gateway tunnel project to include expanding Penn Station an additional block south to 30th Street, a move that would require taking several occupied buildings.

The recommendations came in the midst of eight weeks of emergency repairs to the tracks at Penn Station, a season that New York governor Andrew…