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Article: New Jersey's innovators: New Jersey Transit's billion-dollar capital budget is focused on creating a unified, statewide network of commuter and light rail lines. New technologies are a key part of that strategy.
- Article from:
- Railway Age
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Secaucus, N.J., is a small, rather nondescript toxin that sits in the heart of New Jersey's Meadowlands, a vast, swampy spaghetti bowl of highways that, thanks mainly to an immense sports complex, is a favorite of real estate developers. The Meadowlands is also the great divide between Newark and the densely-packed communities of Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, and Weehawken, which sit on the western shores of the lower Hudson River, across from New York City.
For generations, several busy passenger rail lines crossed paths in Secaucus. Passengers that used one railroad did not have direct access to the others. For example, if you lived in Bergen County in the ...