Amtrak will delay the start of the construction on the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project by two weeks after learning the Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR) East-Bound reroute project is delayed. The three-year project calls for repairing two of the tunnel’s four tubes,

In a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Adams requested that Duffy force Amtrak to perform repairs on the Hurricane Sandy-damaged tunnels on nights and weekends. Amtrak plans to shut down the two East River tunnels, one at a time, over three years.