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[KevinKorell]

Jersey Journal, Jersey City, NJ, 3/18/14:

Jersey City and Englewood mayors will co-chair light-rail panel to push transit line into Bergen County

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop is co-chairing a panel of Hudson and Bergen County mayors, along with Englewood Mayor Frank Huttle III, created to push the light-rail train line further north, Huttle announced today.

Here is the story.

[KevinKorell]

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 3/17/14:

Group wants to put the Bergen in Hudson-Bergen Light Rail

It is called the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail — except the trolleys still do not enter Bergen County, 14 years after the rides began.

Read it

“Had no idea what a light rail would look like,” recalled Sacco, a longtime mayor of North Bergen. “The Disney light rail? Trolley cars? Not a clue. And most believed we would never see it.”

Wow, Sacco really had no clue, since Disney doesn't have light rail. It's monorail. And as a responsible politician he could have taken a field trip to other cities that had it at the time, perhaps San Diego or Edmonton, to see what light rail was and how it operated.

It's true that original plans called for the line to run west of its current terminus to end at the Vince Lombardi Service Area in Ridgefield. That facility already functions as an NJ TRANSIT park & ride (for buses to NYC), in addition to its role in providing a place for drivers and vehicle passengers to take a rest from the road. Assuming that this same park & ride would have been used for light rail, there is no doubt it would have had to be expanded. But a service area on a toll road is very much NOT an ample destination for a transit line given its basis on auto travel.

Edited by KevinKorell, 23 March 2014 - 02:42 PM.

[Sloan]

NJ Transit proposes new light rail extension plan with Englewood as final stop

Two years after Tenafly residents came out against a plan to extend light rail into their community, NJ Transit is weighing a new option that would instead end the rail line one town to the south in Englewood.

http://www.northjers...l-stop-1.750884

[Sloan]

Coalition of mayors announce support for extending light rail to Englewood

A group of North Jersey elected officials are serious about putting the "Bergen" in the so-far-misnamed Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system.

Today, members of the Hudson/Bergen Light Rail Commission -- a group of mayors from Hudson and eastern Bergen counties -- gathered with Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, D-Secaucus, at the Exchange Place Light Rail station to throw their unanimous support behind a plan to extend the light rail line north to Englewood.

http://www.nj.com/hu..._extension.html

[Sloan]

 

 

Could this 21-mile trip spur light rail expansion in Bergen, Jersey City?

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That proposal calls for building seven new stations, at 91st Street in North Bergen, and in Ridgefield, Palisades Park, Leonia, and two in Englewood.

http://www.nj.com/tr..._bergen_jc.html

[Sloan]

 

 

Transportation fund fix must include light rail expansion, lawmakers say

 

ENGLEWOOD — Any bill to raise money for the Transportation Trust Fund must include funding for extending the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Englewood, legislative leaders said Thursday.

http://www.nj.com/be...11/post_33.html

[KevinKorell]

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 5/12/16:

 

When will the light rail finally extend to Bergen County?

 

NJ Transit still owes Bergen County a light rail line. Sixteen years ago, when the first Hudson-Bergen Light Rail trains rolled through Jersey City and Bayonne, Bergen was supposed to be the next stop.

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[Sloan]

Bergen light rail in line for rebirth
Elected leaders in eastern Bergen County on Saturday cheered the news that the long-delayed extension of light rail service into Bergen may finally happen, thanks to the unexpected deal in Trenton to raise the gasoline tax by 23 cents a gallon to replenish the state’s Transportation Trust Fund.

http://www.northjers...birth-1.1670187

[KevinKorell]

The 23 cents is going to be painful for everyone in this state who purchases gasoline. It would be nice to see this come out of it at long last. However more than likely our money may first go literally into potholes.

The article also briefly mentions the RiverLINE, and says that an extension is in the works along the Delaware River. The only extensions ever discussed have been Camden-Glassboro, and maybe an addition on the other end to state government buildings within Trenton.

[Sloan]

 

 

Light rail stops likely to be added in JC, NB, Bergen County
Agreement on gas tax should fuel rail expansion

A recent $16 billion, eight-year transportation funding compromise between legislators and the administration of Gov. Chris Christie should allow for the expansion of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail both into Bergen County and to Route 440 in Jersey City, officials announced last week.

http://www.hudsonrep...ce=latest_story