NEW JERSEY (WABC) — New Jersey Transit planned to return to normal starting Monday morning, as one track of the new Portal North Bridge officially went into passenger service.
However, commuters did see some delays in and out of Penn Station-New York after a train was disabled near Newark, New Jersey.
As of 9:30 a.m., rail service had largely returned to the regular operational schedule in and out of Penn Station-New York.
Last week’s issue with overhead wires on the old Portal Bridge was fixed, and the first phase of the cutover work has been completed.
The wire trouble caused chaos on Friday, just a day after NJ Transit was touting the opening of the new Portal Bridge.
NJ Transit passengers have been dealing with a month of delays and changes due to the new Portal Bridge project.
Amtrak is also working to eventually transfer rail service from the old Portal Bridge to the new one over the Hackensack River.
For the past month, crews have been working on one of the new tracks on the new Portal Bridge.
As for the second track on the new bridge, that work will begin in the fall to ultimately merge all rail traffic onto the new bridge.
The old Portal Bridge will then be demolished.
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