Lackawanna Coalition

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Tag: Secaucus Junction

  • Remembering Kingsland Station (1870-2025)

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    David Peter Alan

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    Saturday, June 7 was a cloudy day with rain showers; appropriate weather for the last day of service at a station that had served its community for 154½ years. Trains on NJ Transit’s “Main Line” stopped at Kingsland for the last time, as service ended early Sunday morning; the end of Saturday’s service day.            …

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  • On the Rails with the Coalition

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    On Friday, May 20, folks from the Lackawanna Coalition teamed up with some folks from the Senior Citizens and Disabled Residents Transportation Advisory Committee (SCDRTAC) on an inspection trip on the Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton lines. We left from Newark Broad Street on the 2:16 P.M. Montclair-Boonton train and stopped in Dover for dinner…

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  • Secaucus to Meadowlands Transitway

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    Webweaver

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    At the added August board meeting, a concept/design contract for this project, which began in April with an Innovation Challenge. The goal is to improve transit between Secaucus Junction and the Meadowlands complex. We question spending $3.5 million for the study—for that, we could surely have weekend service to Montclair State!—but given the approval, hope…

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  • Which Train Is This?

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    For some time, Coalition Secretary Daniel Chazin has been reporting on confused passengers on the 12:45 Pascack Valley train to Spring Valley.  Because a 12:49 Bergen line train to Middletown is scheduled on Track H at 12:49, only 4 minutes later, the automatic announcement that a “train is expected in 8 minutes” can cause inexperienced…

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  • Make Your Voice Heard at NJ Transit’s Hearings on Proposed Fare Increases and Service Cuts

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    David Peter Alan

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    New Jersey Transit has called for fare increases and elimination of some service that affect our area of concern. They include eliminating the last train of the evening from Hoboken on the Montclair-Boonton and Pascack Valley Lines, as well as eliminating the connection between Morristown and the Livingston Mall on the #872 bus. The Lackawanna…

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  • Subway to Secaucus Engineering Report Issued

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    John Bobsin

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    Plans to extend the New York City Transit No. 7 subway line, which runs between Flushing and Times Square in Manhattan, onward to NJ Transit’s Secaucus Junction transfer station have surfaced again.  The idea was first proposed more than 2 years ago by Mayor Bloomberg’s administration; then-chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Joseph Lhota dismissed…

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  • Super Bowl Prompts Secaucus Upgrades

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    John Bobsin

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    Since service to the Meadowlands Sports Complex begain in 2009, business has been booming.  This is according to NJ Transit, which operates rail service from Hoboken via Secaucus to the Meadowlands station, but only when major sports or other events are happening.  Enter the Super Bowl, scheduled for the Meadowlands in February 2014.  How many…

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  • NJT Changes Weekend Bike Rules Again

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey Transit has changed the rules for bicycles on weekend trains again.  The ban on bikes applies only between Secaucus and Penn Station, New York, so riders can take a bike on the train between points within New Jersey.  Riders cannot take bicycles to Penn Station on trains that leave Dover after 7:05 a.m. and before 11:05…

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  • New York Studies Extending No. 7 Subway to Secaucus

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    Donald Winship

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    According to the New York Times, since the demise of the ARC tunnel project, New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s administration has been studying extending the No. 7 subway line under the Hudson to connect with NJ Transit at Secaucus.  This would expand the regional transportation system and alleviate much of the overcrowding expected on NJT trains…

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