NJ Transit began five weeks of rail disruptions on Sunday, Oct.
11, as crews moved the final track from the 116-year-old Portal Bridge to the new Portal North Bridge.
The $2.3 billion project will replace the aging swing bridge over the Hackensack River and remove a long-running bottleneck between New Jersey and New York.
The work involves transferring trains, overhead wires and other equipment to the new bridge.
Schedule Changes and Diversions
All NJ Transit rail lines except the Atlantic City Rail Line will face major schedule changes during the construction period.
Regular service is expected to return Sunday, Nov. 15, after bridge work and safety testing are completed.
Weekday trains on the Morris & Essex, Gladstone Branch and Montclair-Boonton lines that normally run to New York Penn Station will instead be diverted to Hoboken.
Weekend service to Penn Station will continue for those lines.
Commuters traveling through Hoboken can use PATH trains, NY Waterway ferries or NJ Transit buses to reach New York.
Some riders on the North Jersey Coast, Port Jervis and Raritan Valley lines will need bus alternatives during separate construction work.
Amtrak will also adjust schedules during the bridge project, using reduced rail traffic to complete eight maintenance projects along the Northeast Corridor.
NJ Transit and Amtrak have published revised schedules online and are providing updates through their apps and social media accounts.
The final transfer work will retire the 116-year-old Portal swing bridge, which had caused repeated delays when openings for boat traffic disrupted train operations.
