Archives for October 14, 2021

ATTENTION EMPLOYEES

Phase 3 of NJ TRANSIT’s return to the workplace plan – where employees are required to come back to the workplace full time, five days a week – will now begin on Monday, November 8th, 2021.

As a result, NJ TRANSIT will extend Phase 2 of its return to the workplace plan – where employees are required to come into the workplace at least two times a week – through Friday, November 5th.

However, all NJ TRANSIT employees are still required to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by October 18th, 2021, or to undergo regular testing, once the plans for testing have been finalized and communicated in the coming days. 

Employees can securely submit proof of vaccination status (copy of CDC card, screenshot of Docket App, NJIIS vaccination record) to the following email: COVIDVAXProof@njtransit.com. You must include your employee ID number in the subject line of your email.

Please visit covid19.nj.gov/finder for up-to-date vaccine locations in New Jersey.

Testing procedures for those unvaccinated by October 18th will be coming shortly.

Brian A. Lapp

SVP & Chief Safety Officer

NJ TRANSIT

Office: (973) 491-7942

Mobile: (973) 558-1405

BLapp@NJTransit.com

Dear Colleagues,

Yesterday the NJ TRANSIT Board of Directors approved an historic construction award to Skanska Traylor PNB Joint Venture in the amount of $1,559,993,000 for our Portal North Bridge Replacement Project – the single largest construction contract award in our agency’s history! The new Portal North Bridge will span nearly three miles of the Northeast Corridor, and includes the construction of retaining walls, deep foundations, concrete piers, structural steel bridge spans, rail systems, and demolition of the existing bridge.

This is a proud moment for all of us. It represents the culmination of more than three years of hard work and determination by NJ TRANSIT and our project partners at Amtrak. It also means that very soon, we will begin construction on a project of national significance – creating jobs and spurring economic growth for our region, and restoring dependable rail service to the millions of customers who count on this critical link between New Jersey and New York every year.

For a project of this magnitude – spanning so many different departments, including Capital Programs, Procurement, Finance, Operations, Office of Business Development and many others – it would be impossible for me to individually thank every employee who directly contributed to our success. I would, however, like to offer my sincere gratitude to every NJ TRANSIT employee, because this project is truly an organization-wide effort, and we all deserve to feel a sense of accomplishment today. This project will not only create approximately 15,000 jobs and add billions of dollars to our economy, but it will vastly improve the experience for all our customers commuting between New Jersey and New York, along with Amtrak’s customers between Washington, D.C. and Boston, for generations to come

Once again, thank you all for your efforts to turn the vision we had for this critical infrastructure project into a reality.

Warmly,

Kevin

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