9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station)

9th Street
Congress Street

Station platforms with elevator to Jersey City Heights

Location

Ninth & Jackson Streets
Hoboken, NJ

Coordinates

40°44′55″N 74°02′19″W / 40.7487°N 74.0387°WCoordinates: 40°44′55″N 74°02′19″W / 40.7487°N 74.0387°W

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Line(s)

West Side–Tonnelle

Hoboken–Tonnelle

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

NJT Bus: 85, 87, 89 and, 123
(on Congress Street)
22, 84, and 86
(on Palisade Avenue)

Red & Tan in Hudson County: 10/99S
(on Palisade Avenue)

Construction

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

September 7, 2004

Electrified

750 V (DC) overhead catenary

Traffic

Passengers (2006)

211,120

24%

Services

Preceding station		Hudson–Bergen Light Rail		Following station
2nd Street toward West Side Avenue		West Side–Tonnelle		Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue
2nd Street toward Hoboken		Hoboken–Tonnelle		Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue

9th Street-Congress Street 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 an elevator which runs along the face of the Palisades cliffs between the platforms at their base and Paterson Plank Road at their crest. Use of the elevator 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.^[1]

Service

destination	route	transfers
Tonnelle northbound	Lincoln Harbor Port Imperial Bergenline	At Port Imperial: New York Waterway At Bergenline: NJT buses and guaguas
Hoboken Terminal southbound	Hoboken	At Hoboken Terminal: PATH to Midtown Manhattan & WTC, NJT/MTA regional rail Hudson Place bus station New York Waterway
Jersey City West Side southbound	Newport Mall Exchange Place Paulus Hook Liberty State Park	At Exchange Place: PATH to WTC, Journal Square, Newark Penn Station NJT buses Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal
Bayonne	Greenville and Bayonne require transfer at stations between Pavonia-Newport and Liberty State Park.

References

↑ Newman, Andy (November 19, 1995). "N.J. Law; Do Walls Keep Out Crime, or Just Neighbors?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

External links

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