9th Street–Congress Street station
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2nd Street toward West Side Avenue | West Side–Tonnelle | Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue | ||
2nd Street toward Hoboken | Hoboken–Tonnelle |
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9th Street–Congress Street station is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) operated by New Jersey Transit which opened on September 7, 2004. Located at Ninth Street, west of Jackson Street, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the station also serves the Heights of Jersey City. There are two tracks and two side platforms.
Elevator
9th Street–Congress Street station is notable for having a pair of elevators that runs along the face of the Palisades cliffs between the platforms at their base and Paterson Plank Road at their crest. Use of the elevators is free. Before its construction, travel between Jersey City Heights and Hoboken was along Paterson Plank Road, Mountain Road, 14th Street Viaduct or paths along the cliffs now made inaccessible by fencing along the right of way.[3]
References
- ^ "9th Street – Congress Street (HBLR)". NJ Transit. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
- ^ "NJ Transit Set to Extend Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Weehawken" (Press release). New Jersey Transit. September 3, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
- ^ Newman, Andy (November 19, 1995). "N.J. Law; Do Walls Keep Out Crime, or Just Neighbors?". The New York Times. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
External links
Media related to 9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Subway Nut station info and photos Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- 9th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Patterson Plank Road and Congress Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
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