A Bergen County Assemblywoman pressed NJ Transit officials about when the Hudson-Bergen light rail line, built two decades ago, will finally be extended to the county.
A Hudson-Bergen light rail train is seen from River Road going toward North Bergen, the last stop on the line. A state assemblywoman pressed NJ Transit to extend the line to Bergen County, which has been promised for more than 20 years.More than 20 years ago, the first NJ Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail trains began running in Hudson County, with a promise to extend north beyond the line’s current terminus in North Bergen.
“We have waited for more than two decades. There needs to be more action,” she told NJ Transit’s board of directors at Monday’s virtual meeting. “There should be no excuse why the state’s most populous county doesn’t have this important mode of transit.”that could be built along the nine-mile line through eastern Bergen County from the current terminus of Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen to Englewood hospital and Medical Center with seven proposed station stops.
“The has been playing catch up and is working closely with us so we can get a record of decision on the environmentals and then we would be able to apply for funding,” he said. NJ Transit also will need to identify local matching beyond “what we have in the current capital plan,” he said. a half mile to serve the proposed Bayfront redevelopment that includes 8,100 residential units, 401,449 square feet of retail space, 336,180 square feet of office space, 150,436 square feet of public space, 19 acres of parkland, a ferry pier on the Hackensack River, a fire station and a K-8 school.Westview, which has proposed building a four-tower, 3,079-unit luxury housing development
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