A section of the new bridge that will carry New Jersey Transit and Amtrak passengers over the Hackensack River was transported down the Hudson River on Tuesday, November 19.The steel structure is part of the $1.7 billion Portal North Bridge project that will replace the century-old rotating bridge currently in place in New Jersey’s Meadowlands, according to Amtrak.“A two-track replacement bridge — Portal North — will replace this outdated relic with a modern, high-level fixed span that does not open or close, eliminating the movable components and risk of malfunction,” Amtrak said. “The new bridge will rise more than 50 feet over the river and, including the approaches, span nearly 2.5 miles of the Northeast Corridor. Portal North Bridge is an important element of the broader Gateway Program to double rail capacity between Newark and New York.”According to Amtrak, the old Portal Bridge, which opened in 1910 and connects Kearny and Secaucus, carried more than 450 daily Amtrak and NJ Transit trains with more than 200,000 daily passengers at the height of its use prior to COVID-era reductions.Footage filmed by Jon Williams shows one of the three planned sections of the bridge being ferried down the Hudson River near Hudson, New York, by tugboats on Tuesday morning.Local news reports said the sections were manufactured in New York in the Port of Coeymans by Skanska. Credit: Jon Williams via Storyful