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November 18, 2014

$940M needed to replace 104-year-old N.J. bridge

  • An Amtrak planner describes the Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River as ‘the Achilles' heel of the Northeast Corridor.'
    • By DAVID PORTER
    Associated Press

    NEWARK, N.J. — For tens of thousands of rail travelers in the Northeast each day, making a curtain time or simply getting to work can hinge on a bridge built two years before the Titanic sank.

    A regular cause of delays on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston, the 104-year-old Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River in northern New Jersey is viewed as the embodiment of aging railroad infrastructure in dire need of upgrading to accommodate increasing demand in the region.


     
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