New Jersey: There’s no new Portal Bridge yet. But smaller pieces are falling into place

By Curtis Tate, North Jersey Record; October 8, 2018

SECAUCUS — A year after state and local dignitaries broke ground on a $1.5 billion rail bridge in the Meadowlands, NJ Transit and Amtrak commuters aren’t yet riding on the new span. But they are passing an active construction site.

Tucked away under the Eastern Spur of the New Jersey Turnpike, several sections of two giant steel support poles await installation. They will carry high-voltage electrical transmission lines that power the railroad. When put together later this month, they will tower more than 200 feet.

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