After years of delays, work 'in earnest' is expected to begin.
Officials including New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg celebrate the start of construction for the Portal North Bridge with a groundbreaking.Officials including New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg celebrate the start of construction for the Portal North Bridge with a groundbreaking.
to the region. They gathered around a pile of manure in a parking lot across from where the new bridge will be located, dug in faux gold shovels and tossed several shovelfuls to mark the occasion. “Over the years, this critical piece of infrastructure has evolved from a transit marvel into a transit nightmare,” U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat representing New Jersey, said. “It’s old, it’s limiting and it’s unreliable.”
“This project turns the Portal North Bridge from a choke point to an access point,” Buttigieg said at the groundbreaking. “I hope that this bridge will not only bring people to work and loved ones to where they need to be, but brings renewed confidence in our ability to get things done together. We’ve got a lot more good work where this came from — we are entering into a true infrastructure decade.
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