New Jersey Transit has resolved a demand by his former construction director on the beloved replacement project of the portal portal North, who stated that he was fired in 2023 in retaliation to claim that he had design deficiencies.
First reported by the politician political news platform, the liquidation with Mohammed Nasim arrived in January, but it was not made public. NJ Transit acknowledged the liquidation in May in response to a written question about a member of the budget committee and appropriations of the New Jersey State Senate.
A NJ Transit spokesman confirmed to Enr that Nasim received a liquidation of $ 450,000, including remuneration rates and lawyers. There was no responsibility for NJ transit to the settlement, which includes a confidentiality clause.
A lawyer representing Nasim did not respond to a comment request.
Andy Ryan video, courtesy of HNTB
Nasim, the Linkedin page, which calls for more than 30 years of major project delivery experience in the United States and abroad, was hired by NJ Transit in early 2021 as responsible for the construction of the new 2.5 mile crossing, the largest project in the agency history and a key component of the $ 33.7 million catwalk program. According to published reports, NASIM claims to have repeatedly increased the costs and safety concerns arising from the possible liquidation of tracks, the proximity to the active rail lines and the navigation problems of the Hackensack River, which said they were ignored or fired by their superiors.
Nasim was fired for NJ transit in October 2023. He told a local news at that time that he did not give him a reason for completion, except for his state as a “will” employee. In his response to the Senate State Committee, NJ Transit said that the Portal Bridge project has an excellent security history and that it is in time and budget with Amtrak planned to assume the construction of the track, the catenary and other systems in the coming months. The project, which is building a joint company of Skanska and Treylor Brothers, is expected to be completed in the fall of 2027.
Nasim filed a lawsuit of illicit completion in the New Jersey High Court in early 2024, appointing Cap Transit NJ defendants and his then-director of capital programs, Richard Schaefer, who ended his six-year stage with the agency earlier this year to join HNTB as program manager.
HNTB did not respond to a comment request on Schaefer’s role, including if you will have a participation in the Portal Bridge project, for which the firm serves as the main structural structural designer.
Another initial defendant, Amtrak, was abandoned from Nasim’s demand shortly after his presentation.
Nasim now appears in Linkedin as Vice President of Projectix Engineering Consultants, a construction project and a program management firm.
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