Jersey City Light Rail Extension

Hblr has three routes.

Jersey city buy rite. Jersey city is already a national leader in transit oriented development as illustrated in an awesome video by the folks at streetfilms and the proposed bayfront redevelopment will only add to the citys reputation. Hblr is a 175 mile light rail system that operates in hudson county and serves the cities and townships of jersey city hoboken bayonne weehawken union city and north bergen. Construction of a light rail line in jersey city started in 1996 and the first segment opened in 2000 through hudson river waterfront communities.

March 3 2020 at 343 pm. Light rail extension to serve jersey citys growing bayfront by tapinto bayonne staff. Jon corzine promised to break.

Were really thankful to the governors commitment to this project and to jersey city overall mayor steven fulop said calling the light rail extension the single biggest ask for jersey city over the past several years the planned extension is the lines first since it was a new stop was built in bayonnes first ward in 2008. And west side avenue. The light rail extension has been planned and studied since 2009.

The project includes 8100 housing units and 18 million square. A bayfront station would be built roughly one mile to the west on the other side of route 440 from the west side avenue station. Nj transit has been studying the extension since september 2009.

Under its plan 07 miles of new light rail track would be laid along an elevated viaduct from the west side avenue station across route 440 to the northern end of jersey citys massive proposed bayfront redevelopment project where there would be a new station constructed. Tonnelle avenue operating between north bergen and hoboken. Planning of the light rail extension dates back to 2009 but the project is still surrounded by controversy regarding the proposed transitgrid gas powered electricity generating plant that would power part of the new jersey transit rail system in the event of power failure.

The mayor tweeted his enthusiasm for the light rail extension tuesday afternoon one day after gov. The light rail extension is estimated to cost 1716 million. The hblr light rail system serves the cities and townships of jersey city hoboken.