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The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is on the Northeast Corridor just west of Secaucus Junction and east of the Sawtooth Bridges .
Each arch of the new bridge weighs about 5 million pounds and measures about 400 feet long and 80 feet tall. The Portal Arches will be transported by barges down the Hudson River later this year.
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Story continues after photo gallery. ... But the kick-start to the first phase of the $18 billion Gateway program was the Portal Bridge replacement project, ...
After the Portal North Bridge enters service, the old Portal Bridge would be demolished. A twin bridge, the Portal South Bridge, would eventually double the number of tracks to four, thus matching the rest of the Northeast Corridor. [168] Construction on the Portal North bridge began on August 1, 2022, with a groundbreaking ceremony. [169]
The Portal Bridge swings open for marine traffic but can still get hit, as it did in 2018 and in 2022. Though these were minor incidents, they caused rail traffic to be suspended before the bridge ...
The report concluded that New Jersey would have been responsible for 14.4% of the costs of project, and that Christie's claim of 70% included funds committed by the PANYNJ (a bi-state agency) and a $775 million contribution to the rebuilding of the Portal Bridge, which was not in the scope of ARC project
Construction of the $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge remains on time and on budget despite a vast underestimate of how many track outages and staff would be required, according to Amtrak’s ...