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Location. 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 ...
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 ...
The project is being funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, New Jersey, New York and Amtrak. In January 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a grant agreement that secured $766.5 million in ...
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 ...
The FRA has awarded Amtrak $55,100,000 towards the federal cost share for the Portal North Bridge Project. The new span will be built with 50-foot clearance above the Hackensack River, negating ...
In this photo taken Nov. 14, 2014, shrubs are backdropped by a bridge in Kearny, N.J. Amtrak and NJ Transit carry between 150,000 and 200,000 people across the bridge each day.
None of the three firms responded to a request for comment. Construction on the bridge formally kicked off in August 2022.Some 450 Amtrak and NJ Transit trains run daily over the old bridge while ...
The Sawtooth Bridges are a pair of railroad bridges on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) known individually as Amtrak Bridge No. 7.80 and Amtrak Bridge No. 7.96.They are located in the Meadowlands in Kearny, New Jersey, between Newark Penn Station and Secaucus Junction at a stretch where the rights-of-way of Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH, and Conrail converge and re-align.