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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 ...
Gateway Program. The Gateway Program is the planned phased expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station. The project is to build new rail bridges in the New Jersey Meadowlands and new tunnels under Bergen ...
The Portal Bridge will be a taller, fixed-span replacement for the swing span across the Hackensack that is prone to getting stuck, causing delays. Portal Bridge rail replacement project is 50% ...
Gannett. Colleen Wilson, NorthJersey.com. 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 ...
The first bridge crossing of the Hackensack was at Demarest Landing (now Old Bridge Road), built in 1724, which was replaced by that at New Bridge Landing in 1745. [8] The first railroad crossing was completed by the NJRR in 1834, and was soon followed by many others. By the early 1900s conflicts between rail and maritime traffic led to calls ...
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 Portal Bridge, a rail crossing that spans the Hackensack River and is used by NJ Transit and Amtrak trains around 400 times a day, has been hit a few times in recent years by tugboats guiding ...
Ponte Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau. The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge ( HZMB) is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing [5] [6] and the longest open-sea fixed link in the world.