A contractor who wants to bid on part of the work on the Gateway Tunnel project asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order pausing the bidding process on a construction contract until a dispute is resolved.

George Harms Construction Co. of Howell and a union steel worker filed the suit in federal court in Trenton on Nov. 18.

The suit asks for a temporary restraining order to prevent the Gateway Development Commission from moving forward with a bid process on a contract to build a 7,540-foot-long viaduct between the new tunnel and the Northeast Corridor line over a freight rail line in New Jersey until a labor agreement issue is resolved.

The commission is the bi-state agency created to overseeing and manage construction of the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel project,

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