Infrastructure money is on its way to New Jersey — more than $1.1 billion to fix the 500 bridges in the state that are in need of repair.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer stood on one of them to announce the funding, the East Anderson Street Bridge in Hackensack.
“This bridge as everyone said, literally is falling apart, right, it’s one of the, in New Jersey one-third of our bridges are considered unsafe, are structurally deficient, a third, and this is one of them,” he said.
Gottheimer said New Jersey will get more than $8 billion total, to fix not just bridges but roads and rails, to build the Gateway Tunnel as well as upgrade water systems and create infrastructure for electric vehicles.
“When you ignore things for decades, infrastructure, it doesn’t just get better, you can’t wish and hope that it gets better, you actually have to fix them,” he said.
The East Anderson Street Bridge is down to two lanes from four because it can no longer support the amount of traffic it was meant to.