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Commuters & Harrison Brace For Impact Of Transit Limited Service to NYC amtrak harrison nj harrison path nj transit train north portal bridge portal bridge Feb 15, 2026

Commuters traveling from Harrison to New York City are facing a month of reduced NJ Transit rail service as crews shift train controls, signals, and operations from the century-old Portal Bridge to the new Portal North Bridge over the Hackensack River, a major infrastructure transition tied to the G...

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NJDEP Commissioner Gets Push Back on Greenway From Skeptical Residents amtrak commissioners of njsea department of environmental protection kearny mayor carol jean doyle keegan landfill mayor doyle njdea njsea njtransit shawn m. latourette Jan 29, 2024

Last Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt School in Kearny, NJ, Shawn M. LaTourette, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environment Protection (DEP), passionately pitched the Greenway Project as a transformative opportunity for the residents of Kearny. The project, s...

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Large Turnout for North Portal Bridge Ground Breaking amtrak governor phil murphy harrison nj kearny nj kevin corbett nj transit train path train portal bridge senator bob menendez senator robert menendez Aug 02, 2022

On Monday, August 1, 2022, US TransporationĀ  Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled through Harrison down Harrison Avenue to a parking lot in Kearny within view of a one hundred and eleven-year-old bridge called the Portal Bridge to conduct a groundbreaking ceremony of a new Portal Bridge that undoubtedl...

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