Ridgefield station (Hudson–Bergen Light Rail)
Ridgefield is a proposed station along NJ Transit's (NJT) Northern Branch Corridor Project extension of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in Ridgefield, New Jersey.The station site is located along the Northern Branch just west of U.S. Route 1/9 (Broad Avenue) at the overpass of the Hendricks Causeway (County Route S124), southwest of Remson Place. The station is designed to have two side platforms. Parking for 269 vehicles is planned, for which approximately 3 acres will be acquired. As of 2019 NJ Transit bus 127 and 165 stopped in the vicinity of the station on Broad Avenue. . Rail service in Ridgefield began in 1859 by a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. while the area was still called the English Neighborhood. The Erie Railroad Ridgefield Freight Station (#1911) was located at Edgewater Avenue nearby Dutch Reformed Church in the English Neighborhood. and was demolished to make way for the creation of Remson Place after Hendricks Causeway was built in the 1930s. The railroad also had a station in the borough at MorsemereEarly plans and studies from the 1990s for the HBLR system had originally conceived a terminus in Ridgefield at the Vince Lombardi Park & Ride at the New Jersey Turnpike and still under consideration as part of the Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project.
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Railroad Avenue
07657
New Jersey, United States
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