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,
