Portal North, the new Gateway Program fixed-span bridge on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) situated between New Jersey and New York that will replace 112-year-old moveable-span Portal Bridge, has been getting the bulk of public and political attention in recent years. But some 35 miles southwest, on the electrified portion of NJ Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line (NJCL), there’s another bridge replacement project of perhaps equal importance. This one is located on the Raritan River, between Perth Amboy and South Amboy, N.J.
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Thu March 11, 2021 - Northeast Edition #6
Irwin Rapoport â CEG Correspondent
Cranes are playing an essential role in the bridge reconstruction project. Here one lifts a prefabricated deck.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is replacing the
Route 7/Wittpenn Bridge over the Hackensack River at a cost of $495 million, with the goal of having the new bridge completed in early 2023. The bridge links Jersey City on the east side to the town of Kearny on the west side (Hudson County).
The construction began in November 2011, and in late September 2020 CCA Civil Inc. installed a unique bridge deck an orthotropic deck for the vertical lift span that is 324 ft. long. The project is being financed by federal funds and the Lincoln Tunnel Access Program.