In 1999, the owner of the NJ Devils hockey team proposed to build a $350 million arena atop Hoboken Terminal and the rail yards: The proposal, which has been in the planning for nearly two years, envisions the creation of a new 3.3 million-square-foot complex called Hoboken Station on the riverfront amid the Beaux-Arts style…
At the 2014 Summit for New York, the Municipal Art Society and Regional Plan Association presented the latest development in their Penn 2023 campaign to remake Penn Station. The 42-page report, Madison Square Garden: Shaping the Future of West Midtown, highlights two options for the future of the station and arena, along with a feasibility…
Four years ago, when the Christie Administration cancelled ARC, the project to build two new trans-Hudson tunnels, Yonah Freemark of The Transport Politic suggested that NJ Transit could borrow an idea from Paris’ RER and increase passenger capacity on its existing trains by removing some seats: Whereas New Jersey Transit carries roughly 275,000 riders a…
In February 2014, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Weehawken announced plans to jointly launch a bicycle share system using bikes from Nextbike, a German company that operates bike share systems in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In June 2014, the Wall…
In 2010, Hoboken adopted a Complete Streets policy to make streets throughout the mile-square city meet federal and state standards for multi-modal street design and traffic control, ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines on public rights-of-way, and balance the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and motorists. At a public meeting…