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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. Owned and operated by Amtrak and used extensively by NJ Transit, it is the busiest train span in the ...
And its demise has been a long time coming, officials said Tuesday, announcing a $1.56 billion contract for its replacement. The ailing bridge, which spans the Hackensack River from Secaucus to ...
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 the ...
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.
In December 2008, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) approved a $1.34 billion project to replace the Portal Bridge with two new bridges: a three-track bridge to the north, and a two-track bridge to the south. In 2009, New Jersey applied for funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and on January 28, 2010, received ...
The bridge replacement is part of the $18.9 billion first ... The details of Nasim’s lawsuit sparked some concerns in Trenton about construction of the Portal North Bridge. New Jersey state Sen ...
To replace the Portal North Bridge, federal funding sources total approximately 60 percent of the total cost, leaving $772.4 million to be split by New Jersey and New York at a cost of $386.2 ...
It is being undertaken in partnership with Amtrak, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the State of New Jersey, and the State of New York. Portal Bridge Replacement Project. This project would replace the existing century-old bridge swing-span bridge with a new, fixed-span bridge over the Hackensack River. The current bridge causes ...