The new line has stations at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Bears & Eagles Stadium. The existing subway line, which stretches through Newark from Penn Station to Branch Brook Park and two stations at Franklin Street in Belleville and Grove Street in Bloomfield, carries 18,450 passengers a day. Stessel said the line expects to attract 2,000 daily riders by the summer of 2007, with 3,550 riders a day by 2010. The $207.7 million light-rail extension of Newark’s city subway will enable passengers on NJ Transit’s Montclair-Boonton and Morris & Essex rail lines to reach Newark Penn Station in 10 minutes or less without walking or taking a bus.Ĭombined with the renovation of the Broad Street Station and the widening of Route 21, the new line is expected to improve commuting to downtown Newark and its businesses and educational, recreational and cultural facilities. “We won’t be ready to set a date until we get a little further along on the testing and training phase of that segment,” he said. He could not pinpoint the start of service any more precisely. With equipment testing and crew training under way, the first passengers should be riding along the one-mile light-rail line from Newark Penn Station to NJ Transit’s Broad Street Station by early summer, said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for NJ Transit, which will operate the line. Newark’s light-rail city subway extension is almost ready to roll. (The following article by Rudy Larini was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on June 1.)
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