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Nexis4Jersey t1_j54ibj6 wrote

The 90s plan had a proposal for service every 10 mins during peak hour and 30mins offpeak. It would have been electrified, and most people would have seen a decent reduction in travel times. There was supposed to be a mini yard built at Waldwick allowing for increasing service on the Main/Bergen Lines.

The Pascack Valley Line would have been re-double tracked up to New Bridge Landing, which was to become a regional transit hub intersecting with a proposed Route 4 busway. The Double tracking would have allowed for reverse peak service, which is badly needed for the warehouse and Hospital workers. That plan was finally shelved in 2005 much to the disappointment of Hackensack and River Edge which plan to up zone along the corridor. NJT further got into a fight with river edge over the New Bridge Landing station expansion , the agency wanted a huge parking garage and the town did not...so the whole plan was canned in 2009. They also screwed over Hasbrouck Heights when they fenced off the western side of the tracks at Teterboro station rather than work with the town to install a proper crossing...ridership plummeted in the months after.

The Only hope of Electrification now is the MTA wants to electrify its remaining diesel lines by 2040ish.

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hyperstationjr t1_j54vu3h wrote

Re Hasbrouck Heights, the situation with the train station was one of the main reasons I ended up not buying a home there.

At the time it was close to the rest of my family, I grew up there when I was younger, but I also needed to get into NYC and driving just wasn’t an option.

The fact that I couldn’t get to the train station, while not to only reason, pretty much sealed the deal and I looked elsewhere. It’s a shame because I generally liked the area.

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Nexis4Jersey t1_j54w4vr wrote

I'm shocked that they were allowed to get away with that because the town had spent money upgrading the sidewalks and pushing the DOT to make the crossing at 17 safer to cross. Its not an expensive thing to put in a pedestrian crossing...

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