New Jersey Transit and Amtrak have completed an early action construction contract which includes five major elements for the Portal North Bridge Replacement Program.

Trustees of the Gateway Program Development Corp. announced Friday they have named Frank Sacr interim executive director and hired Suma Mandel as chief administrative officer.

Riverside Drive and the Parkway Place exit in Edison are the worst in New Jersey as measured by drivers using handheld cell phones, according to data from Lytx.

New Jersey Assemblymen Vince Mazzeo and John Armato are calling on the Department of Transportation to reopen the Atlantic City Rail Line, which has been closed for five months for the installation of positive train control.

Gateway Development Corp. Chairman Jerry Zaro said in a discussion at New York University on Wednesday that the estimated $20 billion bridge and tunnel replacement project was being held hostage, calling it “a national disaster happening in slow motion.”

NJ Transit will hold hearings at all stations along lines where the agency suspended or curtailed service for repairs, mainly for the installation of the positive train control emergency braking system, beginning tonight at the Dinky Station in Princeton.

Menendez fought to secure $650 million in Amtrak Northeast Corridor funding, a portion of which will be dedicated to Gateway, and an additional $130.1 million in transit formula grants that can be used to advance the project.

New Jersey Transit caught up on roughly $182 million it owed to Amtrak for the use of New York Penn Station and the Northeast Corridor rail line, Gov. Phil Murphy and several senior state transportation officials announced Wednesday morning.

Senate Bill 3410, approved in a 5-0 vote, establishes the Gateway Development Commission, a new bi-state agency that would accept and disperse private and federal dollars to finance the massive Gateway project, which includes a $12 billion trans-Hudson tunnel and the replacement of the Portal North Bridge.