The nation’s largest public transportation project — the $8.7 billion construction Mass Transit Tunnel project, which will go through the Palisades Cliffs, under the Hudson River, and to a new NJ Transit train station in Manhattan — has approved its first contract.
Tuesday morning the NJ Transit Board of Directors unanimously approved at $13.6 million contract with Ferreira Construction Co. Inc. of Branchburg to construct the Tonnelle Avenue underpass. The company will be responsible for relocating utilities and the construction of a new railroad embankment west of Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, according to an NJ Transit press release.
Tonnelle Avenue’s four traffic lanes will remain open during construction, except during night-time construction. The underpass project is slated to be complete in 2012. — Tricia Tirella