What should we expect from the Biden Harris Administration? What can we hope for? Perhaps this administration will recommit the federal government to the Gateway Program. After all, it was the Obama Biden Administration which first came through with federal funding to build a second rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey and add vital capacity to the nation’s most busiest rail corridor. During his keynote address at the Assembly, Biden lamented the decision of then Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey to pull funding from the tunnel project, and ​“Amtrak Joe’s” fondness for rail transportation is well-documented (including in the first line of his Assembly address.)

Beyond the Gateway Program, RPA documented more potential impacts of the Biden Harris administration on our key issue areas, including decarbonizing the region and reducing segregation and inequality, in a recent Lab post.