19-603: The Montclair Connection is a short section of double-track railroad on the NJ Transit Rail Operations system in New Jersey , United States, connecting the former end of the Montclair Branch at Bay Street station to the old Boonton Line southeast of Walnut Street station . The connection opened on Monday, September 30, 2002, at a cost of $ 63 million. At the same time, Bay Street Station
38-1663: A Glance Fiscal Year 2015" (PDF) . NJ Transit . March 2016 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "Operations and Ridership Data" . Metra. 2016 . Retrieved 2017-06-28 . ^ "MBTA STATE OF THE SERVICE Commuter Rail" (PDF) . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). 2014. p. 3 . Retrieved 2019-06-26 . ^ "Route Operating Statistics" . Retrieved 2024-03-22 . ^ "SEPTA - Media Guide" (PDF) . SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority). 2013. p. 7 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "RTD - Facts & Figures" . Regional Transportation District. April 4, 2020 . Retrieved 2017-04-20 . ^ "Caltrain Modernization Quarterly Update" (PDF) . Caltrain . February 2016. p. 2 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "Metrolink Southern California Regional Rail Authority Fact Sheet" (PDF) . Metrolink . 2018 . Retrieved 2020-03-06 . ^ "Transportation Division - Moving Around - Tri-Rail" . City of Fort Lauderdale . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "2015 Financial Plan" (PDF) . Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority ( Sound Transit ). June 2015. p. 3 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "VRE Strategic Plan Executive Summary" (PDF) . Virginia Railway Express . May 2004. p. v . Retrieved 2014-03-26 . ^ Jay Jones (July 8, 2012). "Dunes Country choo-choo" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . Along
57-400: A fleet of 175 locomotives and over 1,200 passenger cars. NJ Transit has a fleet of over 1,100 passenger cars. The fleet and examples are described below. NJ Transit provides passenger service on 12 lines at total of 165 stations, some of which are operated in conjunction with Amtrak and Metro-North (MNCW). List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership From Misplaced Pages,
76-569: Is averaged from the 2023 First Quarter Ridership figure for this system. ^ Q4 2022 References [ edit ] ^ "Public Transportation Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2023" (PDF) . American Public Transportation Association (APTA). March 4, 2024 . Retrieved 2024-03-24 . ^ "Public Transportation Ridership Report First Quarter 2023" (PDF) . American Public Transportation Association (APTA). May 30, 2023 . Retrieved 2023-09-05 . ^ "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for
95-562: Is currently too new for APTA to provide ridership figures. See also [ edit ] Commuter rail in North America List of rail transit systems in the United States List of United States light rail systems List of United States local bus agencies List of United States rapid transit systems Notes [ edit ] ^ There are 3 lines operated directly by Metro North,
114-773: Is the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, New Jersey. Other major yard facilities are located at Hoboken Terminal . Amtrak's Sunnyside Yard in Queens , New York serves as a layover facility for trains to New York Penn Station . Additional yards are located at outlying points along the lines. These include: NJT has a fleet of maintenance crews and vehicles that repair tracks, spread ballast , deliver supplies and inspect infrastructure. There are eight non-revenue work diesels used for these purposes. NJT utilizes numerous moveable bridges : NJ Transit, operates
133-683: The Harlem Line , Hudson Line , and New Haven Line . The Port Jervis Line is operated under contract by NJ Transit , which also owns the Pascack Valley Line that extends into New York. The New Haven Line has 3 branch lines, the New Canaan Branch , Danbury Branch , and Waterbury Branch . ^ This is the Average Daily Ridership figure, not an "Average Weekday Ridership" figure – it
152-540: The Passaic River where DB and WR drawbridges have been condemned. As part of the project, three Boonton Line stations were closed on September 20, 2002; Benson Street , Rowe Street , and Arlington . The Montclair Connection was built to give passengers on the Boonton Line direct access to New York Penn Station ; prior to the change, Boonton Line trains could only go to Hoboken Terminal . The idea for
171-893: The Township of Montclair , an agreement was reached in 1998, and construction began in 1999. 40°48′37″N 74°12′26″W / 40.8102°N 74.2073°W / 40.8102; -74.2073 ( Montclair Connection (NJT) ) NJ Transit Rail Operations NJ Transit Rail Operations ( reporting mark NJTR ) is the rail division of NJ Transit . It operates commuter rail service in New Jersey , with most service centered on transportation to and from New York City , Hoboken , and Newark . NJ Transit also operates rail service in Orange and Rockland counties in New York under contract to Metro-North Railroad . The commuter rail lines saw 57,179,000 riders in 2023, making it
190-657: The third-busiest commuter railroad in North America and the longest commuter rail system in North America by route length . The lines operated by NJ Transit were formerly operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad , Central Railroad of New Jersey , New York and Long Branch Railroad , and Erie Lackawanna Railroad , most of which date from the mid-19th century. From the 1960s onward, the New Jersey Department of Transportation began funding
209-999: The 90-mile route, sightseeing and recreational opportunities are plentiful... ^ "SunRail Celebrates Phase 2 Groundbreaking" . SunRail. April 22, 2016 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "COASTER Fact Sheet" (PDF) . North County Transit District . January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-05 . Retrieved 2013-12-21 . ^ "Stations" . ^ "Data and Statistics - Fast Facts" . Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority . 2013 . Retrieved 2014-05-22 . ^ Dan Leavitt (July 23, 2015). "ACEforward IMPROVING THE ALTAMONT CORRIDOR EXPRESS" (PDF) . San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission. p. 1 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_United_States_commuter_rail_systems&oldid=1259082333 " Categories : Commuter rail in
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#1732772749261228-689: The Atlantic City Line. Below is a list of NJ Transit lines and freight lines that operate on them: NJTR also owns several lines not used for regular passenger service. These lines were purchased by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in the late 1970s for railbanking purposes, with ownership transferring to NJ Transit upon its creation in 1979. These lines are either leased for freight/ tourist service, interim rail trail use, or remain derelict: NJT owns most of its tracks, infrastructure, bridges, tunnels and signals. The exceptions are: NJ Transit's main storage and maintenance facility
247-1052: The Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011" (PDF) . Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) . June 21, 2013. p. 146 . Retrieved 2014-08-29 . ^ "Long Island Rail Road - General Information" . Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) . Retrieved 2014-03-23 . ^ "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011" (PDF) . Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) . June 21, 2013. p. 147 . Retrieved 2014-08-29 . ^ "MTA Metro-North Railroad - MNR About MNR" . Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) . Retrieved 2014-03-23 . ^ "New Jersey State Rail Plan" (PDF) . State of New Jersey, Department of Transportation. April 2015. p. ES-5 . Retrieved 2016-05-27 . ^ "NJ Transit - About Us - History & Structure" . NJ Transit . 2014 . Retrieved 2014-03-23 . ^ "NJ Transit Facts at
266-1592: The commuter lines. By 1976, the lines were all operated by Conrail under contract to NJDOT. The system took its current form in 1983, when NJ Transit took over all commuter service in New Jersey. NJ Transit Rail Operations is divided into the Hoboken Division and the Newark Division. The two networks were not integrated until the opening of Secaucus Junction in 2003, which enabled passengers to transfer between lines bound for New York and Hoboken. As of 2022, NJ Transit's commuter rail network consists of 12 lines and 165 stations, primarily concentrated in northern New Jersey, with one line running between Atlantic City and Philadelphia . Operations are in two divisions: Although NJ Transit itself does not carry freight, NJTR allows freight service to be operated over its lines via trackage rights agreements with several railroads. Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO), CSX , Norfolk Southern (NS) and several short lines ( Cape May Seashore Lines (CMSL), Dover and Delaware River Railroad (DD), Morristown & Erie Railway (M&E), and Southern Railroad of New Jersey (SRNJ) currently have trackage rights contracts to operate freight service on NJ Transit lines. The Morristown & Erie Railway can only use NJT trackage to get between its owned trackage; it cannot serve customers on NJ Transit trackage. A similar situation exists for Conrail on
285-722: The connection was first proposed in 1929 when the Regional Plan Association proposed linking the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's Montclair Branch with the Erie Railroad's Greenwood Lake Branch, but the plan was abandoned due to the economic difficulties associated with the Great Depression . The merger between the Erie and Lackawanna Railroads in 1960 sped up the reconfiguration that
304-5411: The 💕 (Redirected from List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership ) The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association 's (APTA) Ridership Reports Statistics for the fourth quarter of 2023, unless otherwise indicated. List [ edit ] Rank System Major cities served Annual Ridership (2023) Average Weekday Ridership (Q1 2023) Route miles Daily Ridership per mile (Q1 2023) Year Opened Lines Stations 1 Long Island Rail Road New York 75,186,900 276,800 321 791 1834 11 124 2 Metro-North Railroad New York / Stamford / New Haven 60,569,700 235,300 385 492 1983 5 122 3 NJ Transit Rail Operations New York / Newark / Trenton / Philadelphia 57,179,000 140,666 530 265 1983 11 164 4 Metra Chicago 31,894,900 168,600 487.5 243 1984 11 241 5 MBTA Commuter Rail Boston / Worcester / Providence 26,190,500 109,300 388 220 1973 13 127 6 SEPTA Regional Rail Philadelphia / Trenton / Wilmington 17,910,709 77,700 280 173 1983 13 153 7 Denver RTD : A , B , N and G Lines Denver 8,559,700 19,850 40 496 2016 4 20 8 Caltrain San Francisco / San Jose 5,443,800 24,700 77 207 1863 1 32 9 Metrolink Los Angeles / San Bernardino / Anaheim / Riverside / Irvine 4,861,000 19,200 388 39 1992 7 62 10 Tri-Rail Miami / Fort Lauderdale 4,402,300 15,400 80.0 183 1987 2 19 11 FrontRunner Salt Lake City 3,736,600 15,000 88 140 2008 1 16 12 MARC Train Baltimore / Washington, D.C. 3,860,600 13,900 187 63 1984 3 43 13 Sounder commuter rail Seattle / Tacoma 1,630,000 7,300 83 61 2000 2 9 14 Virginia Railway Express Washington, D.C. 1,537,000 6,300 90 60 1992 2 18 15 South Shore Line Chicago / South Bend 1,406,900 6,300 90 51 1908 1 18 16 eBART Contra Costa County, California 1,292,200 4,500 10.1 435 2018 1 3 17 Trinity Railway Express Dallas / Fort Worth 1,163,600 4,100 34 112 1996 1 10 18 SunRail Orlando 1,083,300 4,600 49 88 2014 1 17 19 Keystone Service Philadelphia / Harrisburg 1,115,779 3,200 104.6 31 1972 1 12 20 Coaster San Diego / Oceanside 831,800 3,000 41 49 1995 1 8 21 Capitol Corridor San Jose / Oakland / Sacramento 921,112 1,847 168 11 1991 1 15 22 TEXRail Fort Worth 714,800 2,200 27 62 2019 1 9 23 Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit San Rafael / Santa Rosa 749,700 3,400 45 46 2017 1 12 24 CapMetro Rail Austin 485,400 1,600 32 46 2010 1 9 25 Downeaster Boston / Brunswick, Maine 542,639 1,219 148 8 2001 1 12 26 Rail Runner Express Albuquerque / Santa Fe 584,400 2,800 97 18 2006 1 13 27 Altamont Corridor Express San Jose / Stockton 576,300 3,100 86 22 1998 1 10 28 Shore Line East New Haven 176,979 600 59 10 1990 1 13 29 A-Train Denton, Texas 233,500 1,000 21 28 2011 1 6 30 WES Commuter Rail Beaverton, Oregon 116,300 300 15 33 2009 1 5 31 WeGo Star Nashville 108,000 500 32 13 2006 1 7 32 Northstar Line Minneapolis 142,200 500 40 8 2009 1 7 Systems excluded from ridership table [ edit ] System Largest city(s) served Opened Route length Reason(s) for exclusion from Ridership table Hartford Line Hartford / New Haven / Springfield 2018 63 APTA does not provide ridership figures for this system. Arrow San Bernardino 2022 9 This system
323-826: Was completed in March 1963, when the former Erie Main Line was connected to the Lackawanna’s Boonton Line south of Paterson station to form today’s Main Line. Meanwhile, the Boonton Line west of Mountain View station was linked to the Erie’s Greenwood Lake Branch to form the current Boonton Line. The reconfiguration again spurred the Montclair Connection idea, and in preparation, service
342-442: Was cut back from Lackawanna Terminal to Bay Street by Conrail in 1981. But the proposal was introduced until the late 1980s, when New Jersey Transit proposed for a one-track connection that would have accommodated only diesel trains. Later, the plans were revised to include a two-track connection and five miles of overhead catenary wires, allowing for electric train service and increased travel destinations. After negotiations with
361-505: Was rebuilt and Montclair State University station was built. The Montclair and Boonton lines were combined into the Montclair-Boonton Line , and passenger service was ended on the former Boonton Line east of the connection; the line was single-tracked and used by Norfolk Southern Railway for freight for a time; it is currently out of service. Disuse has caused sections of the line to become derelict, in particular east of
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