Ridgefield | |||||||||||
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| Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station | |||||||||||
 Hendricks Causeway over the Northern Branch | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Ridgefield, New Jersey | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°49′58″N 74°00′42″W / 40.8328°N 74.0116°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | NJT | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | NJ Transit 127, 165 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | 269 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | TBD | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Ridgefield is a proposed station along NJ Transit's (NJT) Northern Branch Corridor Project extension of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in Ridgefield, New Jersey. [1] [2]
The station site is located along the Northern Branch just west of U.S. Route 1/9 (Broad Avenue) at the overpass of the Hendricks Causeway ( County Route S124), southwest of Remson Place. The station is designed to have two side platforms. Parking for 269 vehicles is planned, [3] for which approximately 3 acres will be acquired. [4] As of 2019 NJ Transit bus 127 and 165 stopped in the vicinity of the station [5] [6] on Broad Avenue.
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Rail service in Ridgefield began in 1859 by a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. [7] while the area was still called the English Neighborhood. The Erie Railroad Ridgefield Freight Station (#1911) [8] was located at Edgewater Avenue nearby Dutch Reformed Church in the English Neighborhood. [9] [7] and was demolished to make way for the creation of Remson Place after Hendricks Causeway was built in the 1930s. [10] [11] The railroad also had a station in the borough at Morsemere [12]
Early plans and studies from the 1990s for the HBLR system had originally conceived a terminus in Ridgefield at the Vince Lombardi Park & Ride at the New Jersey Turnpike [13] [14] and still under consideration as part of the Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project.
See also
References
- ^ "Northern Branch Corridor Project". www.northernbranchcorridor.com.
- ^ "Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS FINAL" (PDF). 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ^ Cichowski, John (March 22, 2017). "Road Warrior: A tiny step forward for Bergen light rail". North Jersey.
- ^ Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS, March 2017, Chapter 5: Land Acquisition and Displacement
- ^ NJT 165
- ^ NJT 127
- ^ a b Northern Branch Corridor DEIS, December 2011, Appendix H: Historic Properties and Resources
- ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
- ^ Verdon, Joan (September 30, 2018). "A church with its roots in Bergen County's past turns 250, with faith in the future". North Jersey.
- ^ Santis, Mauro De (November 24, 2017). Ridgefield. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467126571 – via Google Books.
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^ Senior Studio Fall 2008 (2008).
"Ridgefield Waterfront Redevelopment Plan" (PDF). Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) - ^ "History of Ridgefield - Ridgefield, New Jersey". www.ridgefieldnj.gov.
- ^ "Jersey City, Hudson River Waterfront Transportation Corridor Improvements, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System (HBLRTS), Hudson County, Bergen County: Environmental Impact Statement". November 28, 1996 – via Google Books.
- ^ "NJ Transit's West Shore Regional Proposal". Real Transit. Retrieved November 28, 2019.