Transit study will look into running No. 7 train into New Jersey
A top Port Authority official revived the idea Tuesday of extending the No. 7 line into New Jersey. During remarks at a Crain's New York event, PA Executive Director Rick Cotton said running the MTA line into the Garden State would be part of a study about boosting service for commuters across the Hudson River more than 20 years into the future.
From article, (A top Port Authority official revived the idea Tuesday of extending the No. 7 line into New Jersey.
During remarks at a Crain's New York event, PA Executive Director Rick Cotton said running the MTA line into the Garden State would be part of a study about boosting service for commuters across the Hudson River more than 20 years into the future.
"It could be the extension of the 7 line, could be other alternatives," Cotton said at the New York Atlantic Club. The multi-agency study will look at the rail link "in terms of, how do you continue looking at a 2040-type time frame that, by then, you have significantly increased the ability to move passengers across the Hudson."
Cotton said a rail link between New Jersey and New York would be part of the effort to figure out how to build transit to carry more people into the city, along with a new bus terminal, a new tunnel beneath the Hudson River and a boost in PATH train service.
"The bigger picture here is the need to expand trans-Hudson capacity in the long term," Cotton said.
The Port Authority will be working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and NJ Transit on the study. A spokeswoman for NJ Transit did not immediately provide comment.)
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