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9th Street–Congress Street station

Station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in Hoboken, New Jersey


Summary

Station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in Hoboken, New Jersey

FieldValue
nameNinth Street / Congress Street
styleNJ Transit
image9th Street–Congress Street station, December 2024.jpg
image_caption9th Street–Congress Street station in 2024.
address700 Eighth Street
boroughHoboken, New Jersey
coordinates
ownedNew Jersey Transit
platform2 side platforms
tracks2
connectionsNJ Transit Bus:
bicycleYes
accessibleYes
zone1
opened
pass_year2006
passengers211,120
pass_percent24
services{{Adjacent stationssystem=NJ Transit
line1West Side-Tonnelleleft1=2nd Streetright1=Lincoln Harbor
line2Hoboken-Tonnelleleft2=2nd Streetright2=Lincoln Harbor
mapframeyes
mapframe-zoom14
mapframe-marker-color#000
mapframe-markerrail-light

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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.

References

References

  1. "9th Street – Congress Street (HBLR)".
  2. (September 3, 2004). "NJ Transit Set to Extend Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Weehawken". New Jersey Transit.
  3. Newman, Andy. (November 19, 1995). "N.J. Law; Do Walls Keep Out Crime, or Just Neighbors?". The New York Times.
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