{"id":97264,"date":"2026-01-12T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:23:13","slug":"governor-signs-off-101m-for-new-york-rail-and-port-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97264\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor signs off $101m for New York rail and port upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Red Hook Container Terminal (Boggy\/Dreamstime)<\/p>\n

\nNew York State Governor Kathy Hochul has allocated $101m for 25 rail and port upgrades.\n<\/p>\n

The Long Island Rail Road will get $10m to upgrade the Fresh Pond Yard and English Kills bridges.<\/p>\n

$10m will go towards a fully electrified maritime hub in Hunts Point and rehabilitating Pier 10 to support the Red Hook Container Terminal.<\/p>\n

The Oatka Creek Bridge on the Rochester & Southern Railroad will be replaced for $5.9m.<\/p>\n

$4.6m will be used for bridge and track rehabilitation on the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad and $4.2m will go towards rehabilitating the rail line at Rotterdam Branch on behalf of Pan Am Southern\u2019s railway.<\/p>\n

$3.2m will establish direct rail access to the South Buffalo Railroad at the UFP facility in Lackawanna, $1.7m will connect a grain facility to the Finger Lakes Railway in Waterloo and $1.6m will improve rail infrastructure in Sangerfield.<\/p>\n

Marie Therese Dominguez, New York State transportation commissioner, said: \u201cFreight rail and port infrastructure is critical to New York\u2019s global footprint while providing cost-effective solutions to getting goods to market quickly and efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n

A full list of the projects being funded is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Subscribe here<\/a> to get stories about construction around the world in your inbox three times a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Hook Container Terminal (Boggy\/Dreamstime) New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has allocated $101m for 25 rail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,45008,12482,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-97264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-port","12":"tag-rail","13":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}