A federal judge denied a contractor’s request to pause bidding on one of the Gateway Tunnel project construction contracts until a dispute was resolved.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan D. Wigenton denied the request Thursday by the George Harms Construction Co. of Howell and a union steel worker for a temporary restraining order to freeze the bidding process

The suit, which was filed in federal court in Trenton on Nov. 18, sought 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 oversee and manage construction of the

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