Newark Light Rail

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The Newark Light Rail ( NLR ) is a light rail system under the New Jersey Bus Transit Operations serving Newark, New Jersey. This service consists of two segments, the original Newark City Subway ( NCS ), and an extension to the Broad Street station. The combined service was officially inaugurated on July 17, 2006.

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Newark City Underground

The Newark City subway service is longer and older than the two segments. This line is a light rail track "subway" that runs underground downtown and on land in remote areas. Before becoming part of the Newark Light Rail service, it is also known as the Subway line # 7 City, the internally valid NJT Bus operational route number (during system shutdown, the bus will also bear the number "7 Subway City ").

The segment is 5.3 million (8.5 km) long and runs between Grove Street in Bloomfield and Newark Penn Station, a major transportation hub with connections to PATH's fast transit system to Manhattan, multiple bus routes, and both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit Trains Railway Operations.

History

It opened in 1935 along the old Morris Canal, from Broad Street (now known as Military Park) to Heller Parkway. The Administration's Progress work adorns the underground station with an art-deco scene of life on the Morris Canal that dies. The southernmost section, south of Warren Street, is closed with a new road, known as Raymond Boulevard. Only one intersection of classes exist in the original subway; line across Orange Street in class so as to pass the lower class Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (now NJT Morristown Line) immediately to the north.

The complete subway operation to the planned terminal at Penn Station was delayed until the new Pennsylvania Railroad station above was completed in 1937. The terminal has five tracks, two in and three out, linked by two loop tracks. Parts of this subway include a class crossing separated by a connection to a lower level than the Newark Public Service Terminal that is used for only a few months (June to September).

An extension to a wood station on North 6th Street or Franklin Avenue opened in 1940, located just north of the current Brook Brook Branch station. In 1953 the line cut about a block to accommodate the construction of a turnaround, and a new station, still called Franklin Avenue, opened adjacent to Anthony Street. The station was enlarged in 2002 and renamed the Brook Park Branch.

The subway is operated by the Public Coordinated Transport Service as the no. 7. Another tram route using part of the subway, reaching the path in the location shown below, ends because each route is closed and replaced by the bus service:

• Common Service Terminal Connections (and Subway Cedar Street), 1937 only: # 13 Area, # 17 Paterson, # 27 Mount Prospect, # 43 Jersey City
• Street Warren Street, 1935-1951: # 21 Orange - West Orange via Market Street
• Central Avenue Street, 1935-1947: # 23 Central
• Orange Street crossing, 1935-1952: # 21 Orange - West Orange via Orange Street
• Street Bloomfield Avenue, 1935-1952: # 29 Bloomfield

Until June 5, 1952, the Roseville Car House, on the south side of Main Street (on line No 21) near the east line of East Orange, was used for line No. 7. From that time until 2002, Newark Penn Station was used for storage and maintenance. A new store and yard compound opened at the end of the expansion to Grove Street.

Beginning in January 1954, 30 PCC cars purchased from Twin City Rapid Transit provided all services on the route. They are one-ended, needing a new loop construction at the Franklin Avenue terminal. The cars were built from 1946 to 1949 by Car Company St. Louis and sold by TCRT when the system was converted into a bus. Four cars were removed for years, and two cars were sold to Shaker Heights Rapid Transit in 1978.

In 2001, a new light rail car built by Kinki Sharyo in Japan in 1999 replaces PCCs. The last day of PCC service was August 24, 2001.

New Jersey Transit took over operations in 1980.

Some PCCs are stored in Newark City Subway stores. Eleven was sold in 2004 to the San Francisco City Railway for use on its F-legacy tram line. One PCC, # 15, was sent to the Connecticut Trolley Museum in 2013 for recovery and displays. One of Shaker Heights cars has been restored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum, which operates on a short lane in western Minneapolis.

In 2005, eight PCCs were awarded to Bayonne City for rehabilitation and operation along the proposed 2.5-mile (4 km) loop to serve the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, formerly the Bayonne Sea Military Terminal (MOTBY). The proposed line will connect to the 34th Street station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail.

On September 4, 2004, Broad Street Station was renamed Military Park Station, to avoid confusion with the new terminal terminal to Newark Broad Street Station operated by New Jersey Transit.

Bloomfield Extensions

On June 22, 2002, Newark City Subway extended to the suburbs of Belleville and Bloomfield along the former Erie Railroad Orange Branch, now under the ownership of Norfolk Southern. New stations are open at Silver Lake and Grove Street, and Heller Parkway and Franklin Avenue stations are combined into a new Brook Brook Park station. The loop at Franklin Avenue was removed, due to a new two-way vehicle, unlike older PCCs - the new loop, however, is in the Grove Street facility. All road crossings in the extension are at the level.

Joint-path operation

The original agreement granted sole operative rights to Norfolk Southern between 11am and 5am daily, but the new agreement allows passenger services to operate at all hours, with late night service starting on January 8th, 2005. In exchange, Norfolk Southern can now operate for all hours outside peak hours, when passenger trains are rare.

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Extensive Path Extension

The Broad Street Extension is the second segment of Newark Light Rail. Planned as the first phase of Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link. It's one mile (1.6 km) long and connects Newark Penn Station to Broad Street Station. This branch of the older Subway City uses an existing intersection that has led to a Public Service terminal. A new tunnel leads from the intersection to the portal about two blocks to the north. The remaining part goes over the ground. For a few blocks, two tracks run on different streets one block apart. One stop serves the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and others serve the Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium. The extension opened on July 17, 2006.

Construction began in 2002 with an estimated cost of $ 207.7 million, or about $ 40,000 per foot of the track; it's finished in budget. The projection for the 4,000 average boarding days of work after one year, grew to around 7,000 in 2010. Actually the 2010 workday boarding for both Newark Railway lines is reportedly reported at 9,000.

The artwork at the new station has a common theme, "Drive with Sarah and Wayne." It is intended as a tribute to Newark-born jazz musicians Sarah Vaughan and Wayne Shorter, and includes Vaughan's typical lyrics, "Send in the Clowns," and colored bricks that represent musical notes.

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Rates

The Newark Light Rail is equivalent to a one-zone bus ride, with a one zone fare at $ 1.60 (per October 1, 2015), and is valid for one hour across the system from the moment the ticket is validated. A special $ 0.75 "Underground rate is available for trips that only use the subway between Warren Street and Penn Station and not the surface. Via tickets available to connect bus routes. NJ Transit buses monthly and weekly as well as train tickets valid for one or more local bus zones are accepted.

The Newark Light Rail, like most light rail systems in the United States, operates on a payment proof system, where motorists must show their tickets upon request during random tariff checks by police officers, transit workers, or ticket agents. Passengers buy tickets at ticket vending machines (TVMs). One-way and ten-way tickets must be validated in the automatic validator located near TVM, which lists the dates and times on the ticket for 60 minutes of use. The New Jersey Transit ticket checker conducts random ticket checks on vehicles and at stations. Evaluation Rates carry a fine of up to $ 100. At PCC streetcars, cash prices (expedition fees) are paid on the board via farebox, except for a brief period beginning in October 1999 prior to the introduction of the LRV, when collection of proof of payment is institutionalized.

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Station

Newark City Underground

Extensive Street Extensions

On weekdays, the service operates separately between two parts. On weekends, services operate together.

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Rolling stock

The Newark Light Rail system uses a new model vehicle built by Kinki Sharyo of Japan. This vehicle, the same as used by the HBLR system, is a double articulated vehicle with three parts. Each of the two end sections has an operator cabin at the far end, thus eliminating the need for a vehicle to physically change itself to reverse direction. Each end also has seating for up to 16 passengers at the top, and seating for 13 passengers at the lower level, including a special folding chair beside the empty space that passengers may use. With these two parts, and the middle section containing ten passengers (five on each side), the vehicle can accommodate 68 passengers and two wheelchairs comfortably. Additional 122 passengers can stand in the vehicle, if necessary. Vehicles can be combined into two sets units. A contract to expand 10 of the 20 LRVs assigned to the Newark Light Rail system for the purpose of increasing passenger capacity was approved on July 9, 2014.

The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME obtained PCC # 5 in 2011. This car is the first part of NJT's rolling stock in museum collections. The car is undergoing restoration and rehabilitation work so it can operate on the 1 1/2 mile demonstration railway in the museum. Car # 5 joins PCC car collections from various cities, including Boston, Pittsburgh, Dallas, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Kansas CIty.

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Timeline

Historical date

• December 22, 1910: The Public Service Corporation first announced plans to build the subway, initially including the line under Broad Street from Bridge Street to Clinton Avenue
• May 16, 1935: Subway opened from Broad Street to Heller Parkway. The No. 21 line is funneled to the subway via Warren Street Ramp and a level crossing at the intersection of Orange Road class. Line No. 23 is channeled through Norfolk Street Ramp. Line No. 29 starts using Bloomfield Avenue Road.
• June 20, 1937: The extension to Newark Penn Station is open. This is the same day when Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (PATH today) pulled service from the Park Place terminal and first operated to its new alignment at Newark Penn Station. Line No. 13, # 27 and No. 43 was transferred to Penn Station via Cedar Street Subway; Number 27 and No. 43 has used a lower level of Newark Public Service Terminal.
• June 21, 1937: No line. 17 diverted through Subway Cedar Street.
• July 18, 1937: No. Line. 13 and No. 17 stop using Subway Cedar Street.
• December 29, 1937: Line No. 27 stops using Subway Cedar Street.
• May 1, 1938: Line No. 43 stop using Subway Cedar Street, ending all services on that connection.
• November 22, 1940: Extension to North 6th Street (then Franklin Avenue) open.
• December 14, 1947: Line No. 23 stops using Norfolk Street Ramp.
• March 1, 1951: Line 21 stops using Warren Street Street.
• March 29, 1952: Line 21 stops using the intersection level at the intersection of Orange Road class.
• March 30, 1952: Line No. 29 stops using the ramps of Bloomfield Avenue.
• January 8, 1954: The first PCC car used the subway.
• October 1980: Transit NJ takes over operation.
• August 21, 1999: Subway closes for two weeks for repairs.
• September 7, 1999: Subway reopened.
• August 24, 2001: PCC car has been retired from service.
• August 27, 2001: The new light rail vehicle starts to operate.
• June 21, 2002: Heller Parkway is closed.
• June 22, 2002: Silver Lake and Grove Street open.
• September 4, 2004: Broad Street was renamed Military Park.
• January 8, 2005: Additional late night service is provided to Grove Street.
• July 17, 2006: Newark Subway Extension opens, with service between Newark Penn Station and Newark Broad Street. The service was renamed Newark Light Rail.

Accident

The Newark City Subway has suffered several accidents over the years:

• September 22, 1981 - Nine passengers were injured when the incoming trolley crashed into the back of the stationary trolley at Penn Station Newark.
• April 15, 2003 - A light rail vehicle partially slips at a class intersection near Orange Street Station when a box truck hits a vehicle from the side. The signal supports light rail vehicles.
• August 23, 2008 - A garbage truck that was doing an illegal right turn crashed into a light rail vehicle in Washington Park Station from the segment of Jalan Luas causing it to partially slip. One passenger was injured.
• August 28, 2014 - Light rail vehicle rammed an SUV between Atlantic Avenue and Broad Street. No passengers were injured.
• April 6, 2016 - Light rail vehicle hit by car on South Franklin Avenue. No passengers were injured.

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In popular culture

• In November 2011 the scene for the movie The Dark Knight Rises was filmed at Military Park station.

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See also

• Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
• River Path
• Light rails in the United States
• List of tram and light rail transport systems

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References

References

• Edward Hamm, Jr., Public Service Lines in New Jersey .
• DOT Docket FRA-2000-7335-7 and -8.

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External links

• NJ Transit - Light Rail schedule
• Newark Light Rail & amp; Proposals in Google Maps
• NYCSubway.org - Newark City Subway
• Abandoned Stations - Newark Subway Platform Platform
• Newark, New Jersey: Subway (Jon Bell website)

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