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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 .
In 2023, NJ Transit canceled 870 trains because of Amtrak-related issues, due to signal problems and the Portal Bridge getting stuck or, during a particularly bad stretch last summer, because ...
NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett recently toured a port near Albany, New York, where the Portal Arches, part of the new North Portal Bridge, are being built and assembled.. The new rail ...
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 North Bridge was halfway complete and on budget by mid-May 2024. [170]
The project Nasim was overseeing is the $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge, a replacement for the Portal Bridge, a 113-year-old swing span that is a frequent cause of delays on the Northeast Corridor.
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.
The audit did not directly address allegations raised by Mohammed Nasim, NJ Transit’s Portal Bridge construction manager who was fired in October 2023, but several issues raised in the audit ...
Since 1999, the bridge at Milepoint 16.3 is the most upstream bridge required by the Code of Federal Regulations to open on request, [16] though no requests have made since 1994. [17] The Lower Hackensack remains partially in use for commercial maritime traffic, notably for sewage sludge for treatment at a facility on the bay. [ 18 ] (