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| HUDSON - BERGEN LIGHT RAIL Jersey City has thirteen stops on the railway line: Danforth Avenue (East of Garfield Avenue), Richard Street (East of Garfield Avenue), Liberty State Park and Park-Ride (between Communipaw and Johnston Avenues), Jersey Avenue (South of Grand Street), Marin Boulevard (South of Grand Street), Essex Street (between Hudson and Greene Streets), Exchange Place (Hudson Street between York and Montgomery Streets), Harborside Financial Center (East of Greene Street between Morgan and Steuben Streets), Harsimus Cove (Metro Plaza Drive), and Pavonia-Newport Mall Drive East; the western branch from Liberty State Park travels South to Garfield Avenue (between Union and Carteret Streets), Martin Luther King Drive (at Virginia Avenue) and West Side Avenue (at Claremont Avenue). Several of the stations are located near new and familiar Jersey City sites. Liberty Science Center and the Central Rail Road of New Jersey Terminal can be reached from the Liberty State Park station. The Paulus Hook Historic District, Sugar House, Morris Canal Little Basin, and nineteenth-century row houses are within walking distance from the Essex Street station. New Jersey's tallest building, the Goldman-Sachs Tower on the site of the former Colgate-Palmolive Company Complex, Commercial Trust and Fleet Bank buildings, J. Owen Grundy pier, and new apartment complexes appear against a background of the Lower Manhattan skyline en route to the Exchange Place station. And the landmark Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse is in full view as one travels on to the Harborside Financial Center station. On the western spur of the Light Rail, the new Jersey City Medical Center is reached from the Garfield Avenue station. An historical commemorative with artistic renditions to the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King (including a bust by sculptor Jonathan Shahn) and the Underground Railroad are positioned along the platform of the Martin Luther King Drive station. The campus of New Jersey City University is a short distance from the West Side Avenue station. Reference: Gomez, John. Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Historical Tour. Jersey City, NJ: Franklin, 2000. |
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Adult One-Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.75 Reduced Fare One-Way . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.85 Children’s Fare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.85 Adult Discounted 10-Trip . . . . . . . . . . . .$15.00 Monthly Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53.00 Mon Pass and Montthly Parking Permit. .$93.00 Two Adult One-Way Tickets and Daily Parking . $5.50 Two Reduced Fare Tickets and Daily Parking. . $3.70WH TO REACH US NJ Transit Travel Information & Customer Service (24 hours) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (800) 772-2222 Hearing Impaired (TTY) . . . . . 1 (800) 772-2287 Need to locate a lost article? Contact Lost & Found at:: Hoboken Terminal (9 a.m. to 6 p.m. M-F) . . . . . . 1 (201) 714-2739 Need connecting service information? PATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (800) 234-PATH NY Waterway Ferry. . . . . . . 1 (800) 53-FERRY New York Water Taxi . . . . . . 1 (212) 742-1969 Academy Bus . . . . . . . . . . 1 (800) 442-7272 Broadway Bus. . . . . . . . . . 1 (201) 339-4848 Coach USA . . . . . . . . . . . 1 (201) 876-9000 Montgomery & West Side . . .. 1 (201) 434-9875 |
| PARKING Parking is available at the following Park-Ride lots at stations along the line: E. 22nd Street, E. 34th Street and E. 45th Street in Bayonne, and West Side Avenue and Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Customers may purchase monthly and daily parking and transportation together at pay stations located at each Park-Ride lot. Parking will not be offered without the purchase of transportation. ACCESSIBLE SERVICE All Hudson-Bergen Light Rail stations are accessible to people with disabilities. In addition, all NJ TRANSIT local bus routes are accessible. Commuter bus routes and some local bus routes are accessible by reservation only. Call 1 (800) 772-2287 (voice and TTY) to reserve a lift-equipped bus or for additional accessibility |