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Posted 10 January 2012 - 07:23 AM

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 01:18 PM

Bergen County, NJ Record, 1/23/12:

Tenafly could lose 12 private properties. As many as 126 employees at an Englewood business could have to relocate. And up to 1,255 homes could be within earshot of horns from passing light rail and freight trains.

This is some of the impact residents could face if a decades-old plan to bring light rail service, similar to electric trolleys, to eastern Bergen County moves forward.

More on this story here.


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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:04 PM

http://twitgoo.com/5cjd6v
Picture of protesters in Tenafly who don't want light rail.


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Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:45 AM

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Posted 03 May 2013 - 09:31 AM

Faced with opposition to both of its original plans to extend its Hudson County-based light rail into Bergen County, New Jersey Transit will investigate a third option proposed last year by Englewood officials, Mayor Frank Huttle said Thursday.


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Posted 14 May 2013 - 01:08 PM

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 5/5/13:

Light rail to stop in Englewood, not Tenafly, NJ Transit decides


NJ Transit has abandoned plans to extend the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Tenafly in favor of a plan to end the line at Englewood Hospital, the Record reported.

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Poor choice of words for the headline. If HBLRT had been running to Tenafly as the endpoint, it would have stopped in Englewood as well. The word "end" would be more appropriate than "stop". And don't rule Tenafly out yet. HBLRT has always been built and opened in piecemeal fashion, so Tenafly could still be part of a future phase.


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Posted 10 October 2013 - 11:12 AM

New Jersey state leaders from Bergen County urge faster action on light rail plan in Northern Valley

Bergen County legislators are urging the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to move ahead with a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) studying the effects of light rail coming to the Northern Valley.


http://www.northjers...ern_Valley.html

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Posted 10 October 2013 - 11:29 AM

"We're underserved by mass transit despite being the most populated county in New Jersey," said Schepisi. "It's a project that must absolutely move forward. Any person who ever sat in rush traffic trying to get to work on the George Washington Bridge or the Lincoln Tunnel would agree that this would be some welcome relief."

First statement is absolutely true. But then we hear that somehow a north-south light rail line is supposed to bring relief to two river crossings (GW Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel) which run east-west. Makes you wonder if this person even knows what they are talking about. And truthfully, for those who would use HBLRT as a feeder to PATH to gain access to New York City, the further north the light rail goes, the longer the trip to Hoboken or Jersey City to hook up with PATH. The time saved by avoiding traffic jams would be lost with the roundabout route.

I'm definitely on board for eventual extension of Hudson-Bergen LRT into the second county in its name, but I think the expectations of what benefits it will deliver need to be more clearly defined.

And I think NJT will need to re-evaluate its operating scheme. Having over the years cut the weekend frequencies to 20 minutes and eliminated the direct service to Hoboken from the north on weekends, it has placed seating at a premium already. Those who board at Tonnelle Avenue and Bergenline Avenue get seats, and those getting on later end up standing. Most of the ridership is headed towards Newport, which offers the PATH transfer, the second seat cross-platform transfer to access Hoboken, and the area's regional shopping mall. Now with the line starting in Bergen County, you're cramming even more people onto those infrequent trips, and those who used to get seats will now already be standing in the aisle and doorways as the trip proceeds south through Weehawken and the western edge of Hoboken.


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Posted 17 October 2013 - 09:41 AM

Bergen legislators ask county government to support light rail extension

The hospital plans to build parking garages to accommodate commuters to the hospital and other light rail passengers.


Bravo! It's always critical to have trip generators connected to LRT.

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Posted 17 October 2013 - 11:32 AM

Before we start jumping for joy here, let's remember a few things. First, the hospital is not obligated to build a commuter park & ride on its property. Many hospitals do suffer from a lack of available parking, so putting in a garage for its employees, visitors, and those patients who don't arrive by ambulance would be a plus for them. But somebody visiting the hospital won't be happy to find all the parking spaces taken up by all-day commuters. Next, if the hospital wants to encourage visitors and employees to ride the light rail, building a convenient parking garage is not the way to do it. Its presence could very well HURT the intended ridership numbers. Third, I'd like to think that Englewood will be only a temporary terminus for HBLRT -- Tenafly has been discussed for years as a destination, and once they see how successful the line is, they will want it too (kind of like the wait-and-see that Virginia Beach did while watching Norfolk build the TIDE). Again you can never have too much parking by a hospital, but if they do open separate commuter lots, and those spots were taken by people who live to the north of Englewood, now they won't be needed as passengers would be able to board HBLRT further north. It appears that the right-of-way is intact up through Tenafly, Closter, and Northvale. After that you have the New York State border, and it looks from a satellite map that the municipalities there have already turned the right-of-way into a trail. So it's doubtful it would ever get into New York State (other than a possible extension over the Bayonne Bridge on the other end). There is potential in Bergen County for many more lines, perhaps spurs from the Northern Branch. The county is full of bedroom communities which would provide many walk-on capabilities. And if they could run to the west to serve the county seat, Hackensack, and then go further west to the Routes 4 and 17 corridors in Paramus where all the malls are, it would be a gold mine (except on Sundays thanks to archaic blue laws).


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