A $16.1 billion rail tunnel being bored under the Hudson, a $3.5 billion AirTrain rising at Newark Airport, the final cutover of the $1.56 billion Portal North Bridge, and a $900 million interchange being rebuilt over Bellmawr headline New Jersey's public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
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16 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to ≈$26.6B — and one record dominates it: the Gateway Programme's Hudson Tunnel Project at its published $16.057B total. It is a BI-STATE total, listed once and labelled as such, on this New Jersey page per the Batch 6 assignment: the Gateway Development Commission is the bi-state delivery authority, the New Jersey portal and the Palisades tunnelling sit in New Jersey, and New York's page will carry only a pointer to this record. The total has not been halved. The funding split is disclosed on the record: about 70% federal (including a $6.88B FTA Full Funding Grant Agreement, $3.8B Federal-State Partnership, $292M Mega and $25M RAISE grants, and $1B from Amtrak) against a local share from New York, New Jersey and the Port Authority carried by $4.06B of federal RRIF loans. Outside Gateway, New Jersey's tally is about $10.5B across fifteen records — the honest majors list for the most densely populated state, not a census of every NJDOT, county and school-district job.
Bi-state pointers (records that stand on a neighbour's page, named here and NOT tallied): the Delaware River Port Authority crossings to Philadelphia (Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Betsy Ross and Commodore Barry Bridges) stand on Pennsylvania's page; the Delaware Memorial Bridge stands on Delaware's page; the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Delaware River Bridge stands on Pennsylvania's page. Port Authority crossings into New York are listed here where a priced programme is building (Restoring the George at the George Washington Bridge); no priced, building programme for the Lincoln or Holland Tunnels was verified in this cycle, so none is listed. The Glassboro–Camden Line is managed by the Delaware River Port Authority but is a New Jersey line funded by New Jersey authorities, and is listed here at its funded design money only (below).
How programme and phased figures are counted: programme discipline is priced, funded pieces only. Hoboken Connect is tallied at its $176M public portion (New Jersey Debt Defeasance funding) — not at the $900M headline that includes LCOR's private office and residential towers. The Glassboro–Camden Line is tallied at the $200M the South Jersey Transportation Authority committed to preliminary engineering, design and project management — not at its $1.6B–$2B construction estimate, which NJ TRANSIT's chief executive stated publicly in March 2026 is not yet funded; the line is listed at DESIGN on that basis, honestly. Restoring the George is tallied at the Port Authority's published $2B programme total for an 11-project rehabilitation that was 8 projects complete, 2 ongoing and 1 planned in October 2026. The Raritan River Bridge is tallied at NJ TRANSIT's published $595M three-phase total; its two construction contracts ($248M + $444.3M) sum above that figure, and the overrun arithmetic is disclosed on the record rather than hidden.
News-flagged sources: several rows rest on news or trade-press reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data — the Gateway funding stack (Railway Age, from Gateway Development Commission figures), the AirTrain Newark programme (ENR, from Port Authority materials), Restoring the George (Construction Dive, from the Port Authority's October 2026 release), the Portal North final cutover (Railway Track & Structures, from Amtrak / NJ TRANSIT releases), the Direct Connection (42Freeway's NJDOT-sourced construction reporting) and Port Street (NJBIZ, from the Port Authority groundbreaking). Each record names the underlying official source. The softest records on the page are the Direct Connection's ≈$900M (a long-running NJDOT programme figure carried in trade and local reporting; its final Contract 4 was still to be advertised in October 2026 at a $350M–$400M estimate range) and the Raritan total (above).
Deliberately excluded: projects completed in a prior year, however large — Newark Liberty Terminal A ($2.7B, opened January 2023), the Wittpenn Bridge replacement ($209M, opened 2021), Rowan University's Edelman Fossil Park & Museum ($75M, opened March 29, 2025) and the Pulaski Skyway rehabilitation's completed phases. Completed EARLIER IN 2026, and excluded on that ground under the current convention: the George Washington Bridge South Walk rebuilding (reopened October 15, 2026 — a completed piece INSIDE the still-running Restoring the George programme, which is why the programme itself stays listed while the walk is named here). The New Jersey Wind Port's Phase 1 marshalling port in Salem County (over $650M of state funding and financing allocated; Parcel A's wharf and 30-acre marshalling area were built for completion in fall 2024, and the port stands built but without an active marshalling tenant after the Atlantic Shores OREC termination in August 2025) is treated as a prior-phase completion with no priced, funded next phase verified — its later manufacturing parcels remain in permitting and are not tallied. Excluded as private by rule, however large: Princeton University's computer-science expansion ($305M Skanska contract, 2026 — a private university), Cooper University Health Care's Camden expansion (private nonprofit health system), the HELIX / Nokia Bell Labs development in New Brunswick (private-led), and private data centres. Excluded as unfunded proposals: the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail Northern Branch extension to Englewood (≈$1.18B estimate; funding not secured, and the FTA rescinded its environmental-review intent in 2023 — a new EIS was only being re-procured in November 2025), the balance of the Glassboro–Camden construction cost (above), a new Newark Liberty Terminal B (a public-private partnership envisaged in the Port Authority's 2026–2035 capital plan, not yet a priced, funded build), and the Penn Station South / Block 780 expansion in Manhattan (a New York-side Gateway element with no funded build). No verified termination and no suspended major was found among New Jersey's majors in this cycle; the Gateway tunnel itself paused for 18 days in February 2026 when federal reimbursements were frozen, resumed under court order, and is listed as under construction — the pause is disclosed on its record, not hidden.