Jersey Avenue | |||||||||||||
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 The Trenton-bound tracks of Jersey Avenue facing northward towards Newark. New York-bound trains do not use this track when stopping at Jersey Avenue. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 584 Jersey Avenue (NJ 91), New Brunswick, New Jersey United States | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°28′41″N 74°28′16″W / 40.478194°N 74.470997°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Amtrak Northeast Corridor | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 low-level side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 5 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | October 24, 1963[1] | ||||||||||||
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| 2012 | 1,588 (average weekday)[2] | ||||||||||||
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Jersey Avenue is a New Jersey Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is near Jersey Avenue, in an industrial area next to a New Jersey Transit rail yard. Unlike all other stations on the NJ Transit Northeast Corridor Line, Jersey Avenue has low-level platforms (the rest are elevated), and, since there is no wheelchair ramp, it is the only station on the line that is not handicapped-accessible. Jersey Avenue opened in October 1963 as part of an experimental park and ride program.
Jersey Avenue has a different layout than most New Jersey Transit stations. It has two platforms: a southbound platform on the main line for trains heading south toward Trenton Transit Center, and a northbound platform on a siding behind the southbound platform for trains heading north toward New York Penn Station. The platforms are separated by a parking lot. There is no platform on the northbound main line, so northbound trains from Trenton cannot serve Jersey Avenue. About a third of the southbound trains that stop at Jersey Avenue do terminate there, using the siding. Jersey Avenue station is the only station on the Northeast Corridor Line that does not have weekend service
In April 2014 NJT approved a contract for a design for relocation and rebuilding the station platform to permit high-level boarding, along with pedestrian overpass, vertical circulation, improved parking, and bus connection areas, as well as improvements to 5 miles of the existing Delco freight line to make it a 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles per hour) main line track for passenger trains. As of 2015, additional design and engineering work to reconfigure the station was funded, but no construction date had been scheduled.[3]
- ^ "Eisenhower Raised Moral Issue In Opposing A-Bombing of Japan;". New York Times. New York, New York. October 25, 1963.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ^ Higgs, Larry (December 9, 2015). "Train station could be moved to build flood-proof rail yard". NJ.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2015.