Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority will be performing necessary sewer repair work beginning on or about June 1, 2019. As a result, NJ TRANSIT will be required to temporarily discontinue service on a section of the West Side Avenue branch of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in Jersey City. The three stations that will be temporarily closed for the duration of the project:
Light rail service will be suspended for approximately nine months along this route. Emergency repair work is scheduled to end on or about March 1, 2020.
Substitute bus service will be provided to accommodate customers for express travel from each of the three stations (West Side Avenue, Martin Luther King Drive and Garfield Avenue) directly to the Liberty State Park Station, where customers can connect to regular HBLR service. Shuttle buses will also provide local service between each of the three stations. The West Side Avenue Park and Ride will remain open during the station closure. When the project begins, NJ TRANSIT customer service representatives will be on location to assist customers.
Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCMUA) is repairing a sewer pipe that runs directly underneath the light rail tracks. It will take NJ TRANSIT at least two months to decommission the section of the West Side Avenue light rail line, removing wire, shutting off electricity and removing track before JCMUA will have access to the worksite.
NJ TRANSIT will conduct public hearings to receive public comment on the proposed service disruption along the West Side Avenue branch of the HBLR. There will be two opportunities for public comment on Thursday, March 7th, 2019.
The public hearings will be held:
To read the full notice on the public hearings click here.
Submit your comments for the public record by clicking here.
NJ TRANSIT is working closely with Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority to ensure the project remains on schedule and eliminate as much disruption as possible to our customers and the surrounding neighborhood.
This is prime example of how not to build new rail facilities. The sewer should have been replaced in a casing before the tracks were ever installed. That brings up the question did NJT also take care of all utilities going under the tracks in the same way or did it just punt? Even Atlanta's street car project placed all utilities in casings underneath the tracks and a certain distance beyond!.
It's like the old urban joke about the city repaving a street to where it's as smooth as a pool table, and then a week later they rip it up to install sewer lines.
Or electrical cabling. Or whatever.
Nothing ever changes.
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