List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
This is a list of vehicular and rail bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey. Located in the northeastern part of New Jersey Hudson lies at the heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey and is a major crossroads of the New York Metropolitan area and Northeast Megalopolis. Located on two peninsulas, formerly known as Bergen Neck and New Barbadoes Neck, it has extensive waterfront along the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, Kill van Kull, Newark Bay and the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers. The main part of Hudson lies on Bergen Hill, the southern emergence of the Hudson Palisades, starting at sea level at Bergen Point and rising to 260 feet travelling through Bayonne, Jersey City and North Hudson. Secaucus and most of West Hudson are part of the New Jersey Meadowlands. Listings are generally from south to north.
Hudson River[]
Kill van Kull and Newark Bay[]
Crossing | Carries | Location | Coordinates |
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Bayonne Bridge | NJ 440 NY 440 |
Bayonne - Staten Island | |
CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge (defunct) |
Central Railroad of New Jersey | Bayonne - Elizabethport | 40°39′16″N 74°09′00″W / 40.6545°N 74.15°W |
Newark Bay Bridge | I-78 New Jersey Turnpike |
Bayonne - Newark | |
Upper Bay Bridge | CSX Transportation Norfolk Southern Conrail National Docks Secondary |
Bayonne - Newark | 40°41′57″N 74°06′36″W / 40.699052°N 74.11°W |
Hackensack River[]
Passaic River[]
Bergen Hill-Hudson Palisades[]
Railroad tunnels, cuts, viaducts and right of ways |
Location | original use | Current use |
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Central Railroad of New Jersey | Bayonne and Greenville | Main Line to Communipaw Terminal partially built along the former Morris Canal |
Hudson Bergen Light Rail Liberty State Park - 8th Street |
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway | Bayonne, Greenville, Downtown Jersey City | Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway | National Docks Secondary CSX Transportation to Port Jersey, Constable Hook, Croxton Yard & other points in Port of New York and New Jersey and North Jersey Shared Assets Area |
Newark and New York Railroad (1869)[4] | West Side & Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City | Central Railroad of New Jersey line from Downtown Newark to CRRNJ Terminal | Hudson-Bergen Light Rail West Side Branch |
National Docks Secondary (1897) | Downtown Jersey City | National Docks | North Jersey Shared Assets CSX Transportation |
Bergen Hill Cut (1838)[1] | Journal Square | New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company to Paulus Hook Pennsylvania Railroad to PRR Station at Exchange Place or Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove |
PATH Journal Square and Newark lines North Jersey Shared Assets Area |
Harsimus Stem Embankment | Harsimus & Hamilton Park | Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove Pennsylvania Railroad railyard and abattoir |
unused |
Bergen Arches (1910)[5] | Journal Square & Jersey City Heights | 2nd Erie Cut Erie Railroad to Pavonia Terminal |
unused |
Long Dock Tunnel (1860)[6] | Journal Square & Jersey City Heights | First Erie Cut to Pavonia Terminal | Norfolk Southern |
Bergen Tunnels (1876) & (1908)[7] | Jersey City Heights | Morris and Essex Railroad Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Erie Lackawanna |
New Jersey Transit to Hoboken Terminal. |
Hoboken Elevated | Hoboken Terminal - Palisade Avenue | North Hudson County Railway Public Service Railway |
dismantled after bustitution in 1949 |
Gateway Tunnel (proposed) |
Amtrak New Jersey Transit |
North Bergen and Midtown Manhattan | |
THE Tunnel | North Bergen - Weehawken | New mass transit tunnel that will connect Secaucus Junction with an expanded Penn Station (New York) | construction cancelled October 2010 |
New York Tunnel Extension (1910) western entrance Bergen Portal[8] |
North Bergen - Weehawken | Pennsylvania Railroad to North River Tunnels | Amtrak New Jersey Transit: Northeast Corridor Line North Jersey Coast Line Train to the Game |
Eldorado Cut (1893)[9] | Weehawken | for streetcar line connecting waterfront ferries via elevator to the entrance of late 19th century Eldorado Park and North Hudson Railway streetcar lines to Nungessers | |
Weehawken Tunnel (1861)[10][11][12] | North Bergen - Weehawken Port Imperial | New York Central West Shore Railroad | Hudson Bergen Light Rail Bergenline Station |
The next cut and tunnel to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County | |||
Edgewater Tunnel (1894)[13] | Fairview - Shadyside, Edgewater |
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway cut and tunnel[14] | unused |
vehicular cuts | carries | location | connection |
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State Highway (Depressed Highway) |
New Jersey Route 139 | Jersey City | Pulaski Skyway - Holland Tunnel |
Lincoln Tunnel Approach | NJ Route 495 | North Hudson | New Jersey Turnpike - Lincoln Tunnel |
The next vehicular cut to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County | |||
GWB Plaza | Fort Lee | to George Washington Bridge | |
There are numerous excavations for roads on the eastern escarpment of the Hudson Palisades, including New York Avenue, Mountain Road, Paterson Plank Road, Wing Viaduct, Hackensack Plank Road, Shippen Street, Boulevard East, Pershing Road, Bull Ferry Road, Gorge Road |
Meadowlands[]
Kearny and Croxton in the low-lying Meadowlands supports an infrastructure that includes many unnamed bridges, embankments, flyovers, and causeways.
The Manhattan Transfer was once located in the Kearny Meadows. The Kearny Connection allows transfer between the Hoboken and Newark Divisions of New Jersey Transit rail operations for its Waterfront Connection. The Sawtooth Bridges carries the Northeast Corridor over NJ Tranist, PATH, and Conrail.
The Main, Bergen County, Pascack Valley, Meadowlands, and Port Jervis lines uses a series of embankments and bridges to cross the Meadowlands. Planned expansion of Secaucus Junction includes a massive loop. Numerous junctions, including the Marion, and the Northern Running Track are part of the Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets Area, a component in the national freight rail network. Much of the New Jersey Turnpike travels along a causeway. Nearby Snake Hill, Exit 15's huge horseshoe-shaped U-turn rises above the rail yards and lines below it.
See also[]
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- Timeline of Jersey City area railroads
References[]
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- ^ "Jersey: Jersey City Bridge Profile". Shoutingthomas.typepad.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20090327025729/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/essex.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
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- ^ NJDOT Web Development Unit. "Paterson Plank Road Project Debuts in Hudson County". Nj.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/03/17/109695387.pdf Palisades/NYS&W Tunnel
- ^ Palisades diabase
External links[]
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