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37-722: The first minimum operable segment (MOS-1) opened to the public on July 17, 2006, as the Newark Light Rail Broad Street Line , connecting Broad Street Station and Penn Station in Newark. The second segment (MOS-2) would have connected Penn Station with the airport, while the third segment became known as the Union County Light Rail . New Jersey Transit cited the project in its 2016 Capital Improvement Program without any specific allocation. The planned Liberty Corridor Bus Rapid Transit Service which include

74-528: A grade-separated junction with a connection to the lower level of the Newark Public Service Terminal that was used for only a few months (June to September). An extension to a wooden station at North 6th Street or Franklin Avenue was opened in 1940, located north of the present Branch Brook Park station. In 1953 the line was cut back about one block to accommodate construction of a turning loop, and

111-633: A legacy of their roots in two separate railroads. Broad Street Station was once owned by the Lackawanna Railroad and its successor, the Erie Lackawanna Railway , while Penn Station was built and owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad . Previously, passengers wanting to transfer between Amtrak and the former PRR/ Conrail commuter lines and the former (Erie) Lackawanna commuter lines had to make their own way (usually by taxi or bus) between

148-473: A major transportation hub with connections to the PATH rapid transit system to Manhattan , multiple bus routes, and both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit Rail Operations trains. The line opened in 1935 along the old Morris Canal right-of-way, from Broad Street (now known as Military Park ) to Heller Parkway (now replaced by the nearby Branch Brook Park station ). Works Progress Administration artists decorated

185-623: A new agreement allows passenger service to operate at all hours, with late-night service commencing on January 8, 2005. In exchange, Norfolk Southern can now operate during all off-peak hours, when passenger trains are infrequent. The Broad Street Extension is the second segment of the Newark Light Rail. It was planned as the first phase of the Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link . The line is one mile (1.6 km) long and connects Newark Penn Station to Broad Street Station . It branches off

222-454: A new station, still called Franklin Avenue, was opened adjacent to Anthony Street. The station was enlarged in 2002 and renamed Branch Brook Park. The subway was operated by Transport of New Jersey (formerly Public Service Coordinated Transport) as its No. 7 line. Other streetcar routes used parts of the subway, reaching street trackage at the locations shown below, ending as each route was closed and replaced by bus service: Until June 5, 1952,

259-594: A short stretch of track in western Minneapolis . In 2005, eight PCCs were given to the City of Bayonne to be rehabilitated and operated along a proposed 2.5-mile (4 km) loop to serve the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor , formerly Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY). The proposed line would be connected to the 34th Street station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail . On September 4, 2004, Broad Street Station

296-859: The New Community Corporation , a non-profit organization providing job training, housing and medical care. A major landmark of Roseville is Newark Schools Stadium , located at the corner of Roseville Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue. There are also many Italian restaurants along Bloomfield Avenue. Roseville is served by the Orange Street, Park Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue Stations of Newark City Subway . Educational institutions include: First Avenue Elementary School, Dr. William. H. Horton School, Alma Flagg Elementary School, Abington Avenue School, Sussex Avenue School, Roseville Avenue School, Newark Preschool, St. Rose of Lima School, and St. Frances Xavier School. Sussex Avenue School, Abington Avenue School, and

333-696: The Roseville Car House, on the south side of Main Street (on the No. 21 line) near the eastern city line of East Orange , was used for the No. 7 line. From that time until 2002, Newark Penn Station was used for storage and maintenance. A new shops and yard complex opened at the end of the extension to Grove Street. Starting in January 1954, 30 PCC streetcars bought from Twin City Rapid Transit provided all service on

370-587: The U.S. state of New Jersey . It borders Bloomfield and East Orange . To the neighborhood's immediate east is the Newark City Subway and Branch Brook Park . Roseville is divided into Upper Roseville north of 3rd Ave and Lower Roseville south of 3rd Ave. Originally called "Rowesville," Roseville was farmland at the time of the Civil War, but during the conflict most of the area was turned into Union Army training and camping grounds. The original location of

407-494: The 1950s and 1960s, the proportion of African American residents increased. However, since the 1980s, increasing numbers of Hispanic families have moved into the neighborhood, hailing from Puerto Rico , Dominican Republic and various Latin American mainland countries. From 1929 to 1964 Roseville was Newark Academy 's third home. The school had a large campus on First Street, between Seventh Avenue and Orange Street. The building

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444-521: The 20 LRVs assigned to the Newark Light Rail system for the purpose of increasing passenger capacity was approved on July 9, 2014. The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME acquired PCC #5 in 2011. The car represents the first piece of NJT rolling stock in the museum's collection. The car is currently undergoing restoration and rehabilitation work so that it may operate on the museum's 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile demonstration railway. Car #5 joins

481-577: The Greater Newark go bus and the Union go bus expressway, will provide service along much of the route of the NERL. Newark Light Rail The Newark Light Rail ( NLR ) is a light rail system serving Newark, New Jersey , and surrounding areas, owned by New Jersey Transit and operated by its bus operations division . The service consists of two segments, the original Newark City Subway ( NCS ), and

518-557: The Heller Parkway and Franklin Avenue stations were combined into a new Branch Brook Park station. The loop at Franklin Avenue was removed, since the new vehicles are bidirectional, unlike the old PCCs. A new loop, however, is in place at the Grove Street facility. All the street crossings on the extension are at-grade . The original agreement gave sole operating privileges to Norfolk Southern between 11 pm and 5 am daily, but

555-526: The Newark Light Rail service, it was also known as the #7-City Subway line, an NJT Bus Operations route number carried over from its days when it was part of Public Service 's Transport of New Jersey subsidiary. The number still applies internally. During subway system closures, replacement buses would also bear the route number "7 City Subway". The segment is 5.3 mi (8.5 km) long and runs between Grove Street in Bloomfield and Newark Penn Station ,

592-579: The Newark Light Rail were built with slight modifications to the trucks and wheels due to the different rails used. Like the HBLR vehicles, the NLR vehicle is a double-articulated vehicle with three sections. Each of the two end sections has an operator's cab at the far end, thus eliminating the need for the vehicle to turn itself around physically in order to reverse direction. Each end section also has seating for 16 passengers on an upper level, and seating for 13 passengers on

629-831: The PCCs. The last day of PCC service was August 24, 2001. Some of the PCCs are stored in the Newark City Subway shop. Eleven were sold in 2004 to the San Francisco Municipal Railway for use on its F Market heritage streetcar line . One PCC, #15, was delivered to the Connecticut Trolley Museum in 2013 for restoration and display. One of the Shaker Heights cars has been restored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum , which operates it on

666-675: The Riverfront Square development (formerly a baseball stadium) at the Riverfront Stadium station . The inbound track makes a stop at Washington Park . The extension opened on July 17, 2006. Construction began in 2002 with an estimated cost of $ 207.7 million, or about $ 40,000 per foot of track; it was completed within budget. Projections were for 4,000 average weekday boardings after one year, growing to about 7,000 in 2010. Actual weekday boardings in 2010 for both Newark Light Rail lines combined were reported at 9,000. The art work at

703-590: The United States, operates on a proof-of-payment system, in which riders must present their tickets upon request during random fare inspections by police officers, transit workers, or fare agents. Passengers must purchase tickets at ticket vending machines (TVMs) located on station platforms or near station entrances. The tickets can also be purchased via the New Jersey Transit mobile app. One-way, round-trip, and ten-trip tickets must then be validated, either by

740-555: The app or with paper tickets, through automated validators located near the TVMs, which stamp the date and time on the ticket for 60 minutes of use. NJ Transit's fare inspectors randomly check tickets on trains and at stations; fare evasion carries a fine of up to $ 100. On the PCC streetcars , cash fares (exact fare) were paid on board via farebox, except for a brief period starting in October 1999 prior to

777-447: The beginning of Roseville is Lower Roseville. This area includes a small area between 7th Avenue to the north, Central Avenue to the south, West Market Street to the west, and 1st Street to the east. Roseville farmland had many boiling springs at the time. This area was the original settlement of Roseville from surveyed land on Cyrus Peck’s farm. There was even a large park called Roseville Park before being surveyed and parceled off. Many of

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814-404: The extension to Broad Street station . The City Subway opened on May 26, 1935, while the combined Newark Light Rail service was officially inaugurated on July 17, 2006. The Newark City Subway is the longer and older of the two segments. It is a "subway–surface" line which runs underground from Penn Station to Warren Street, and above-ground north of Warren Street. Before becoming a part of

851-436: The former Roseville Avenue School are some of the oldest schools in the city. The historic Roseville Presbyterian Church , incorporated in 1854, is located on Roseville Ave between I-280 and Sussex Avenue. This church was created by donated land from Cyrus Peck, the original owner of the farmland surrounding the area. Cyrus Peck’s house was later donated to Roseville Presbyterian Church and later on demolished in 1973. The house

888-629: The homes in this area are Victorian-era brownstones and row-homes built in the mid-1800’s. There are also many Victorian mini-mansions in the area. Residential development began with the construction of Newark's first streetcar line in 1862, and expanded greatly in the 1880s. Growth was also spurred by the Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Railroad, which maintained a train station in Roseville for many years (closed in 1982 by New Jersey Transit ). For generations, Roseville received Newarkers who had acquired

925-409: The introduction of LRVs , when proof-of-payment fare collection was instituted. All stations are in Newark. On weekdays, service operates separately between the two sections. On weekends, service operates jointly. The Newark Light Rail system uses a new-model vehicle built by Kinki Sharyo of Japan. This model is the same one used by the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system, although the ones used on

962-440: The lower level, including one special fold-down seat next to an empty space that a passenger using a wheelchair may use. With these two sections, and a middle section that seats ten passengers (five on each side), the vehicle can comfortably accommodate 68 seated passengers and two wheelchairs. An additional 122 passengers could stand in the vehicle, if necessary. Vehicles can be coupled into two-unit sets. A contract to expand 10 of

999-527: The museum's already-extensive collection of PCC cars from numerous cities, including Boston , Pittsburgh , Dallas , San Francisco, Philadelphia , Washington, D.C., and Kansas CIty. The Newark City Subway has had a few accidents over the years: Other transit in the United States: Roseville, Newark, New Jersey Roseville is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County , in

1036-450: The new stations has a common theme, "Riding with Sarah and Wayne." It is a tribute to Newark-born jazz greats Sarah Vaughan and Wayne Shorter , and includes the lyrics to Vaughan's signature song, " Send in the Clowns ," and colored bricks representing the music notes. The Broad Street Extension was intended to ease connections between Newark's two rail stations. The two separate stations are

1073-407: The north. The original Newark City Subway line had its own right-of-way and did not share city streets with local traffic, except at the Orange Street grade crossing. Operation of the complete subway to the newly built Penn Station was delayed until 1937. The terminal below Penn Station has five tracks, two incoming and three outgoing, connected by two loop tracks. This part of the subway included

1110-559: The older City Subway using the existing junction that had led to the Public Service terminal . A new tunnel leads from the junction to a portal about two blocks north. The remaining section runs above ground. For a few blocks, the two tracks run on different streets a block or two apart. Both tracks serve the New Jersey Performing Arts Center at Center Street. The outbound track makes stops at Atlantic Street and at

1147-456: The prosperity to leave the crowded tenements of the Ironbound and the central part of the city. At the turn of the century, the northern section of the district was predominantly Irish-American , but the rest of the neighborhood was not associated with any single ethnic group. Most of the residents, however, were Catholic and St. Rose of Lima Church was an important part of neighborhood life. In

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1184-639: The route. They were single-ended, requiring construction of a new turning loop at the Franklin Avenue terminal. The cars had been built 1946–1949 by the St. Louis Car Company and were sold by TCRT when that system went through a conversion to buses. Four cars were scrapped over the years, and two were sold to Shaker Heights Rapid Transit in 1978. New Jersey Transit took over operations in 1980. In 2001, new light rail cars built by Kinki Sharyo in Japan in 1999 replaced

1221-632: The two stations. The Newark Light Rail is equivalent to a one-zone bus ride: a one-way ticket costs $ 1.80 (as of July 1, 2024), and is valid for one hour on the entire system from the time the ticket is validated. A special $ 0.85 "Underground" fare is available for trips that use the subway only between Warren Street and Penn Station and not the surface portion. Through-ticketing is available for connecting bus routes. Monthly and weekly NJ Transit bus and rail passes valid for one or more local bus zones, as well as transfers purchased on buses, are also accepted. The Newark Light Rail, like most light rail systems in

1258-416: The underground stations with Art Deco scenes from life on the defunct Morris Canal. The southernmost part, south of Warren Street, was capped with a new road, known as Raymond Boulevard . Only one grade crossing was present on the original subway; the line crosses Orange Street at grade so it can pass over the below-grade Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (now NJT Morristown Line ) immediately to

1295-429: Was located on 5th Street, 6th Street, and Sussex Avenue. Across the street from Roseville Presbyterian Church is the old St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church which was originally started by middle class residents from nearby East Orange and is now a predominantly African American congregation. On October 1, 1853, Cyrus Peck and his wife deeded the triangular piece of land to the church a year after its settlement. Roseville

1332-520: Was renamed Military Park Station, to avoid confusion with the terminal of the new route to the Newark Broad Street Station at University Avenue, operated by New Jersey Transit. On June 22, 2002, the Newark City Subway was extended to the suburbs of Belleville and Bloomfield along what had been the former Erie Railroad Orange Branch, now under Norfolk Southern ownership. New stations were opened at Silver Lake and Grove Street , and

1369-482: Was torn down in 1965 and replaced by Garden Spires, two high rise brick apartment buildings. Roseville has a tradition of community organization. In 1930 the citizens of Roseville founded the Roseville Community Council, the first grass-roots neighborhood improvement society in Newark. In the wake of the 1967 Newark civil unrest , the pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church, Monsignor William J. Linder, founded

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