Phase 2 of the Portal Bridge cutover begins Sunday, Oct., 11. This is the final step to fully opening the new train bridge over the Hackensack River. It means reduced and altered service on all lines during construction.
“This is an extremely complex work procedure that we have to put in place,” said NJ Transit President/CEO Kris Kolluri. “We have a live track, next to which we have to do this work. We have a group of people working on the job who are committed to doing this in the five weeks that have been allotted.”
The Raritan Valley Line will end at Newark these five weeks. The Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch and Montclair-Boonton Line will not offer the popular Midtown Direct service into the city. Instead, they will end at Hoboken Terminal, where commuters will have to take the PATH, bus or ferry to Manhattan…