Secaucus Junction

Secaucus Junction train station is a tower near the town of Secaucus, New Jersey, near Manhattan. It was opened on 15 December 2003.

Here, several railway lines of New Jersey Transit tick ( NJTransit ): Above, the distance between Newark and New York City's Penn Station, which is traversed by several lines of NJTransit and Amtrak trains, down the lines Main Line, Bergen County Line, Pascack Valley Line and Meadowlands Rail Line. While the upper route is electrified, run in the bottom of exclusively diesel - hauled trains. Amtrak trains do not currently hold.

The station was originally designed as a pure transfer possibility for rail passengers, passenger numbers remained significantly below expectations. Acceptance has been improved by the construction of a departure from the New Jersey Turnpike in 2005 and finally a parking lot in 2009.

Vision: extension of the New York subway

In 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has the Access to the Region 's Core ( ARC) project set for reasons of cost. In the context of two other ARC rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York City should be built in order to create capacity for additional Amtrak and NJTransit trains to Penn Station. After the end of ARC New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched an extension of line 7 of the New York subway to Secaucus Junction this week. The former head of the New York Public Transportation Ray Lhota MTA acknowledged the extension have little chance of a: "I've told the mayor this, I can not see happening in our lifetime did ."

In 2013, the city of New York has published the results of a feasibility analysis of the extension.