NEWARK — Here is the view of New Jersey transportation from an eight-acre tow yard on the edge of the city:

More than 1,000 cars, most felled by potholes or the maneuvering of the state’s less-than-celebrated drivers, fill the grounds. Planes drone over the tangle of highways just outside the fence.

And overhead, the Pulaski Skyway towers.

“This,” said Vernon Bradshaw, 24, a tow driver for the lot, “is going to be terrible.”

On Saturday, northbound traffic on the skyway will be shut down for an estimated two years for a reconstruction project, severing a critical link for roughly 40,000 vehicles in and around Jersey City and Newark and complicating commutes to New York City for those who use the bridge to reach the Holland Tunnel.