How Does This Work???

Early 1900’s• Oil Bust

• Standard Oil Split up• Loss of Jobs

• Great Migration• Crime • Slums

• WWI• Shipping Yards• Job Creation

WWI Ship Yards

Post WWIThe Roaring 20’s• Job creation• NYC industry

Great Depression• Amplified effects• Riots• Crime

WWII

NJ Ship Yards WWII

Missile Fields

Austin J. Tobin&

The Port Authority

As railroads declined, so did access to New York

City

1950• 1 NYC terminal• 5 NJ terminals• Hudson Tubes

(PATH)• 6 Ferry routes

1985• 1 NYC terminal• 1 NJ terminal• PATH

MAJOR EMPLOYMENT CENTERS SERVED BY RAIL

• New York CityMidtown Financial DistrictLower Manhattan/Wall St.

• Newark• Jersey City / Waterfront

LINES TO HOBOKEN (Blue)• Transfer to PATH required to reach NYC & Jersey City• Only 3 of the 7 lines have direct Newark access

LINES TO NY & NEWARK (Red)• Direct access to Midtown Manhattan & Newark• Transfer to PATH required to reach lower Manhattan and

Jersey City Waterfront

WATERFRONT CONNECTION(1991)

• First connection between Newark & Hoboken Divisions

• Permits Newark Division trains to operate to Hoboken

• Direct access to Jersey City/Waterfront market

KEARNY CONNECTION /MIDTOWN DIRECT

(1994)

• Affects three electrified lines on Hoboken Division

• Permits trains to operate direct to midtown Manhattan (Penn Sta.)

MONTCLAIR CONNECTION(2002)

• Boonton Line connected to Montclair Branch

• Direct access to Midtown Manhattan & Newark

People InvolvedJames EE.. McGreevey - Governor of NJ

NJ TRANSIT Board of Directors

James P. Fox - Transportation Commissioner, NJT Board Chairman

Myron P. Shevell -Vice Chairman Paul P. Josephson - Governors Rep John E. McCormac - C.P.A. State Treasurers - Flora M. Castillo, John L. McGoldrick, Patrick W Parkinson George D. Warington- Executive Director

SECAUCUS JUNCTION(2003)

• 3 Hoboken Div. diesel rail lines routed onto a single alignment

• New station permits transfer to midtown Manhattan trains

Frank Lautenberg

NEWARK AIRPORTRAIL STATION

(2001)

• Permits direct rail access to airport• Located on Northeast Corridor,

main rail artery between Trenton, Newark, and New York City

HUDSON-BERGENLIGHT RAIL

(2000-2006)

• Bayonne-Jersey City-Hoboken-Weehawken-North Bergen

• Connects with NJT Rail (Hoboken), PATH & Ferries

NEWARK LIGHT RAIL(2006)

MEADOWLANDS SPORTS COMPLEX RAIL STATION

(2009)

• New rail line and station• Large passenger volumes• Connects at Secaucus Junction for

system-wide rail access