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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 .
May 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM. KEARNY — Getting to the 50% completion mark on the new $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge — and getting there on time and on budget — required overcoming myriad ...
Alexis Tarrazi, Patch Staff. NEW JERSEY — President Joseph Biden visited New Jersey on Monday where he stopped by a Somerset County school and also to break ground on the Portal North Bridge ...
$1.5B Contract Awarded To Replace Despised Portal Bridge In NJ - Newark, NJ - When the Portal Bridge was built, William Taft was president. It's now one of the most notorious chokeholds for...
Good News For One Of NJ's Most Hated Crossings: Portal Bridge - Belleville-Nutley, NJ - Tired of delays and mechanical failures at the 109-year-old Portal Bridge? There may be relief on...
A mile marker along M-14 in 1922. From that year's biennial state highway commissioner's report: The diamond mile post markers are numbered consecutively from the point of origin of the trunk line to its end. The numbers are placed on the metal post directly under the diamond. The origin of the trunk line is considered to be at the east or ...
The bridge is a tied-arch railway bridge, as well as a pedestrian bridge. Originally built in 1911, it survived numerous Allied bombings in World War II, only to be destroyed by German engineers as the war drew to a close. Reconstruction began soon after and the bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic in 1948 then completely opened in 1959.
The Portal Bridge will be replaced by a fixed-span structure and will be raised 50 feet over the Hackensack to avoid having to swing open for marine traffic. It has "been subjected to similar ...
May 7, 2024 at 12:42 PM. 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 ...
NJ Transit plans to tear down the existing 110-year-old swing bridge and replace it with a new two-track, high-level, fixed-span bridge. The new Portal North Bridge will rise 50 feet over...