Realigning the LOSSAN line by constructing a tunnel would shorten the rail route between the two cities by approximately three miles and reduce travel time by six to seven minutes.
She said New York and New Jersey "have no skin in the game" and need to pony up more money to help pay for the project.
Red Line service had to be suspended in two separate areas due to arcing insulators caused by water infiltration during the morning commute.
The new tunnels are the first part of the the multi-billion dollar Gateway Project, which includes building two new rail tunnels.
The 35-mile tunnel should eventually help slash travel time between Zurich and Milan, and shuttle twice the roughly 9,000 people currently traveling between northern and southern Europe across the trans-Alpine route within the next decade.
Officials issued the criticism during a Tuesday meeting to present findings about the probable cause of the incident.
The scope of the rehabilitation and renewal project entails 16 tunnel segments with existing ventilation equipment.
The lack of cell phone coverage was exposed most recently after the Jan. 12 smoke incident at L’Enfant Plaza when passengers aboard Yellow Line train No. 302 struggled to connect to 911 as smoke filled the railcars just a few hundred feet south of the station platform.
A team of 60 archaeologists will work in shifts, six days a week to remove skeletons and carefully record evidence for what may prove to be, in archaeology terms, London’s most valuable 16th and 17th-century cemetery site.
Contractors will line more than 10,000 linear feet of newly excavated tunnels with permanent structural concrete walls, and install complex communications systems in Grand Central Terminal’s future Long Island Rail Road concourse.