{"id":349394,"date":"2026-09-17T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349394\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:54:08","slug":"nj-transit-and-amtrak-will-slash-rides-to-nyc-to-move-bridge-see-timeline-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349394\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transit And Amtrak Will Slash Rides To NYC To Move Bridge: See Timeline, Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Bridge Will Be Demolished<\/p>\n<p> The transfer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-jersey\/newarknj\/1-5b-contract-awarded-replace-despised-portal-bridge-nj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">century-old Portal Bridge<\/a> over the Hackensack River to the Portal North Bridge is part of the Gateway Program to improve Amtrak and NJ Transit rail service to New York. <\/p>\n<p>Trains were frequently held up in Kearny due to problems with the old bridge, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The Portal Bridge will be decommissioned in fall and ultimately demolished in January. The demolition will not impact service, officials said.<\/p>\n<p> More than 18,000 more commuters streamed through Hoboken Terminal in mornings and again in evenings in February while the first of two tracks was moved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Bridge Will Be Demolished The transfer from the century-old Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-349394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}