1. How Does This Work???

2. Early 1900’s
• Oil Bust
• Standard Oil Split up
• Loss of Jobs
• Great Migration
• Crime
• Slums
• WWI
• Shipping Yards
• Job Creation

3. WWI Ship Yards

4. Post WWI
The Roaring 20’s
• Job creation
• NYC industry
Great Depression
• Amplified effects
• Riots
• Crime

5. WWII

6. NJ Ship
Yards
WWII

7. Missile Fields

8. Austin J. Tobin
&
The Port Authority

18. 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

22. MAJOR EMPLOYMENT
CENTERS SERVED BY RAIL
• New York City
Midtown Financial District
Lower Manhattan/Wall St.
• Newark
• Jersey City / Waterfront

23. 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

24. WATERFRONT CONNECTION
(1991)
• First connection between Newark & Hoboken
Divisions
• Permits Newark Division trains to operate to
Hoboken
• Direct access to Jersey City/Waterfront market

25. KEARNY CONNECTION /
MIDTOWN DIRECT
(1994)
• Affects three electrified lines on
Hoboken Division
• Permits trains to operate direct to
midtown Manhattan (Penn Sta.)

26. MONTCLAIR CONNECTION
(2002)
• Boonton Line connected to
Montclair Branch
• Direct access to Midtown
Manhattan & Newark

27. People Involved
James 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

29. SECAUCUS JUNCTION
(2003)
• 3 Hoboken Div. diesel rail lines
routed onto a single alignment
• New station permits transfer to
midtown Manhattan trains

30. Frank Lautenberg

31. NEWARK AIRPORT
RAIL STATION
(2001)
• Permits direct rail access to airport
• Located on Northeast Corridor, main
rail artery between Trenton, Newark,
and New York City

32. HUDSON-BERGEN
LIGHT RAIL
(2000-2006)
• Bayonne-Jersey City-Hoboken-
Weehawken-North Bergen
• Connects with NJT Rail
(Hoboken), PATH & Ferries

33. NEWARK LIGHT RAIL(2006)

34. MEADOWLANDS SPORTS
COMPLEX RAIL STATION
(2009)
• New rail line and station
• Large passenger volumes
• Connects at Secaucus Junction
for system-wide rail access