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Portal Bridge
Railroad bridge in New Jersey
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The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is on the Northeast Corridor just west of Secaucus Junction and east of the Sawtooth Bridges. Owned and operated by Amtrak and used extensively by NJ Transit, it is the busiest train span in the Western Hemisphere, carrying between 150,000 and 200,000 passengers per day on approximately 450 daily trains (an average of one train every two minutes during the day).
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🇺🇸 NJ Transit Commuters Grumble as Bridge Work Disrupts Train RidesMany people who commute into Manhattan got their first taste of the crowded platforms that are expected to become common over the next month as the Po...
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