The EWR Station Access Project is preliminarily estimated to cost $125 million (subject to change based on the results of the planning work authorized today). The PATH rail extension, as originally outlined in the agency’s 2017-2026 Capital Plan, relies on more than $700 million in anticipated grants that have yet to be secured. Now, residents of Newark’s South Ward – who asked for rail service as part of a proposed PATH line extension to serve Newark Airport – will get a rail station sooner and not have to wait for the larger project to be funded and built … although they’ll be riding a NJ Transit train instead of a PATH train, NJ.com reported.Īccording to Port Authority officials: “The EWR Station Access Project was engineered to deliver many of the community benefits of a PATH rail extension to the AirTrain Newark Rail Link station faster and at a significantly reduced cost. Newark residents have been demanding better access to the airport for years, most recently at several community outreach sessions conducted as part of the Port Authority’s EWR Vision Plan. The project will also improve connections to PATH train service from Newark Penn Station for access to job centers in Jersey City and Manhattan, while spurring transit-oriented development around the NEC station serving the airport consistent with local community-driven planning efforts.” “Comparatively, it can take Newark and Elizabeth residents about 40 minutes to reach Newark Airport via bus, whereas the trip from Amtrak and NJ Transit’s co-located Newark International Airport station on their Northeast Corridor (NEC) lines to AirTrain Newark takes only about nine minutes, or rail trips to Newark Penn Station on existing trains from the NEC station link reliably take about seven minutes.
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