Ground has been broken on the Portal Bridge replacement https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/ ... 759758001/. This must be for the work platform and utility relocation. To the best of my knowledge the bridge is still not fully funded.
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EuroStar wrote:While Portal Bridge South is not likely to materialize any time soon, its relative benefit is much underappreciated. A second bridge plus two more tracks from there to Swift interlocking will provide significant relief to the train interleaving problems caused at the junction where Midtown Direct trains merge onto the NEC.More importantly is what Amtrak plans to do with the present swing bridge. If kept then the 4 track improvement reliabilities would be acquired. Even though the possibility of the swing bridge failing is always there. Plus the unlikely event that the North Portal bridge has to have some unanticipated work. Two separate bridges even with one problematic seems to be the plans elsewhere. Note MNRR's Walk bridge and Cos Cob bridges will be two separate 2 track bridges instead of the single 4 track bridges. Already the Susquehanna bridge replacement is planed to be two separate 2 track bridges.
east point wrote:But Gateway project does include the 4 tracking.The Gateway project consists of many separate independent items. The order of which item occurs is subject to various funding and political pushes but here is a tentative "MAYBE" order.
njt/mnrrbuff wrote:I don't think Secaucus Loop is needed at all. .That has always been a concern of many. Believe the NJT concept is to fill in NYP capacity and relieve Hoboken. But that sounds very hollow ?