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Hudson County, New Jersey, is the sixth-most densely populated county in the U.S. [7] and has one of America's highest percentages of public transportation use. [8] [9] During the 1980s and early 1990s, planners and government officials realized that alternative transportation systems needed to be put in place to relieve increasing congestion [10] along the Hudson Waterfront, particularly in ...
The G Line was originally conceived in the 1990s as a rail line that would go from Denver Union Station to downtown Golden. [6] But plans to build the line to Golden were split into two phases. The first phase was funded through FasTracks, and ended at the current terminus of Wheat Ridge/Ward. The second phase has yet to be funded, and RTD has ...
Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility [3] is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, New Jersey, near its border with West New York and North Bergen. [4] The station opened on February 25, 2006.
After two years of studies, in May 2011, NJT announced its plan for a 0.7-mile (1.1 km) extension of the line. The new track would be laid along an elevated viaduct from the West Side Avenue station, across Route 440 to the northern end of the proposed Bayfront redevelopment area, where a new station would be constructed. The trip between the ...
The Newark Light Rail (NLR) is a light rail system composed of two sections, the Newark City Subway, originally opened in the 1930s by PSCT as the No. 7 line, and the sole surviving line of several that ran into this tunnel, and the Broad Street Line which operates from Newark Penn to Newark Broad Street via Washington Park and Riverfront Stadium, which opened in 2006.
On February 9, 1996, a Bergen County Line train collided with a Main Line train, killing 3 people and injuring 162. [5] It was the New York City area and New Jersey's worst train accident since the 1958 Newark Bay rail accident when at least 48 people died.
FasTracks is a twelve-year, $6.9 billion public transportation expansion developed by the Regional Transportation District and currently underway. [14] [28] The plan called for six new lines: light rail, diesel commuter rail, and electric commuter rail lines with a combined length of 122 miles (196 km) to be opened between 2013 and 2017. [28]
The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States. Also included are some of the urban streetcar/trolley systems that provide regular public transit service (operating year-round and at least five days per week), ones with data available from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Ridership Reports.