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Portal Bridge. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Portal North Bridge, which is part of the larger Gateway Program, is supposed to reduce gridlock caused by critical operation and maintenance issues of the existing 110-year-old swing bridge ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Gateway Program is a planned expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along the right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station. The project is intended to build new rail bridges in the New Jersey ...
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.
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 ...