Journal Square Transportation Center

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General information
Location	Kennedy Boulevard; Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°43′56″N 74°03′47″W / 40.732141°N 74.063114°W
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	NWK–WTC JSQ–33 JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 1, 2, 6, 10, 64, 67, 80, 83, 84, 87, 88, 119, 125, 319; A&C Bus Corporation (Bergen Avenue, 440 Shopper, Society Hill)
Construction
Parking	464-car parking garage
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1912
Rebuilt	1968 to mid-1970s
Electrified	600V (DC) Third Rail
Passengers
2015	8,175,580 1.2%
Services
PRR

The Journal Square Transportation Center is a multi-modal transportation hub located on Kennedy Boulevard at Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.^[2] Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the complex includes a ten-story tower, a retail plaza, a bus terminal, a two-level parking facility, and the Journal Square station of the PATH rail transit system. The underground station has a high ceiling and a mezzanine level connecting the platforms. The upper level of the station contains a bank of escalators leading to street level, elevators to parking, and a series of escalators leading to the street-level bus bays.

History and vicinity

The JSTC was originally the site of the Summit Avenue Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. Summit Avenue station was built on April 14, 1912. The district was renamed Journal Square in the 1920s.

The open-spandrel concrete arch bridge carrying Kennedy Boulevard and the station, built in 1926, is a pared-down version of a more ambitious elevated plaza scheme proposed by consulting engineer Abraham Burton Cohen. Passageways were suspended from the arches to connect the railroad station to bus stops on the bridge deck above.^[3] The original mid-roadway bus stop islands have since been removed.

The H&M was acquired by PATH in 1962, and reconstruction of the station began in 1968.^[4] Though the cornerstone was installed on September 20, 1972, the center itself was opened in stages in 1973, 1974, and 1975^[5] during the late phases of the Brutalist architecture movement. It is constructed over the Bergen Hill Cut, an excavated ravine, originally opened in 1834 and later used by the Jersey City Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Freight trains on the Passaic and Harsimus Line occasionally make use of the cut to traverse the Palisades along tracks north of the mass transit system.

The center is sometimes viewed as having contributed to the decline of the district by moving the train-bus interchange, and thus pedestrians, away from other commercial activities around the square.^[6]

A statue of Jackie Robinson was dedicated at the center in 1998.^[7]

The Loew's Jersey Theater, the Stanley Theater, Hudson County Community College, Journal Squared, Hudson County Courthouse and Hudson County Administration Building are in the immediate vicinity. Nearby are the neighborhoods Bergen Square, India Square, Marion Section, Five Corners, the Hilltop, and McGinley Square site of Beacon and Saint Peter's College are

Rapid transit

The Journal Square PATH station opened on April 14, 1912, as the Summit Avenue Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. Currently it is served by two lines of the Port Authority Trans Hudson, being the terminus of the Journal Square – 33rd Street route.^[8] At the platform level, the inside tracks are typically used by the Journal Square – 33rd Street trains, while the outside tracks are used by the Newark – World Trade Center trains.^[9]

Bus

Regular frequent bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit and private enterprises for points throughout Hudson County and to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. There is also service to Newark, Hackensack, the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City .^[10] Bus arrivals and departures use platforms accessible from within the station or via Pavonia or Sip Avenues.

Route	destination	major points
Bergen Avenue A&C Bus Corp.	Greenville	Bergen Square McGinley Square Bergen Avenue Old Bergen Road
1 NJT^[11]	Newark-Ivy Hill via Newark-Ironbound and Downtown Newark	West Side Lincoln Highway Ferry Street/Raymond Boulevard Market Street 16th Avenue
2 NJT^[12]	Secaucus Junction	Kennedy Boulevard County Avenue Meadowlands Parkway
6 NJT^[13]	Greenville Merritt Street or Lafayette Loop Liberty State Park	Summit Avenue Communipaw Junction Ocean Avenue
10	Bayonne JFK Blvd and 3rd Street	Kennedy Boulevard
64N limited weekday service no weekend service NJT^[14]	Lakewood NJT Bus Terminal	U.S. Route 9
67 limited service NJT^[15]	Toms River Park and Ride via Lakewood seasonal: Seaside Heights	U.S. Route 9 Route 549
80 eastbound NJT^[16]	Exchange Place	Newark Avenue
80 southbound NJT^[16]	Greenville regular service	West Side Avenue
83 NJT^[17]	Hackensack Bus Terminal	Summit Avenue Bergen Turnpike Tonnelle Avenue U.S. Route 46 Main Street
84 NJT^[18]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Newark Avenue Palisade Avenue Bergenline
87 southbound NJT^[19]	Greenville Gates Avenue	Bergen Square MLK Drive Old Bergen Road
87 northbound NJT^[19]	Hudson Place Hoboken Terminal	Central Avenue Palisade Avenue 9th Street-Congress Street HBLR Paterson Plank Road
88 NJT^[20]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Kennedy Boulevard
119 No Sunday service	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard 9th Street-Congress Street HBLR 14th Street Viaduct
125 NJT^[21]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard Marginal Highway
319 NJT^[22]	Atlantic City Bus Terminal or Wildwood Bus Terminal Seasonal: Cape May	Garden State Parkway Express to Sea Isle City (stops in Toms River)
440 Shopper A&C Bus Corp. http://www.acbuscorp.com	Hudson Mall	Marion Section West Side Avenue Route 440
Bergenline Avenue Jitney^[23] Multiple carriers	Newport Mall George Washington Bridge Plaza	Newark Avenue Palisade Avenue Bergenline Fort Lee
JFK Boulevard Jitney Community Lines	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard Union City
Society Hill A&C Bus Corp. http://www.acbuscorp.com	Society Hill	Marion Section West Side Avenue Droyer's Point

Layout

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Track layout

Legend

to Grove St

to storage yards

east of station

to storage yards

east of station

Long track section

to storage yards

east of station

to storage yard

north of station

to storage tracks

Long track section

to storage yard

north of station

to storage tracks

to Harrison

Upper level

Lower level

Ground	Street level	PATH exit/entrance, bus terminal
Mezzanine	Mezzanine	Entrance/Exit, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregates
Platforms	Westbound	← NWK-WTC toward Newark (Harrison)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Westbound	← JSQ-33 JSQ-33 (via HOB) alighting passengers only
	Eastbound	→ JSQ-33 toward 33rd Street (Grove Street) → → JSQ-33 (via HOB) toward 33rd Street (Grove Street) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Eastbound	→ NWK-WTC toward World Trade Center (Grove Street) →

References

^ "PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
^ [1] Wikipmapia JSQ Trans Ctr
^ Cohen, A. Burton. "Hudson County Boulevard Bridge Plaza." Purdue Engineering Review 21, No. 4 (May 1926): 3-6, 22.
^ Construction of The PATH Journal Square Transportation Center; 1968
^ Port Authority:JSQ Trans Ctr history
^ Angel, Karen. "Journal Squared: A Jersey City neighborhood's housing multiplies." The New York Daily News. Friday November 13, 2009. 1. Retrieved on November 13, 2009.
^ Robinson statue and marker
^ Port Authority: JSQ Trans Ctr
^ Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
^ JSQ carriers and routes
^ NJT bus 1 schedule
^ NJT bus 2 schedule
^ NJT bus 6 schedule
^ NJT bus 64 schedule
^ NJT bus 67 schedule
^ ^a ^b NJT 80 schedule Archived July 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ NJT 83 schedule
^ NJT 84 schedule
^ ^a ^b NJT bus 87 schedule
^ NJT bus 88 schedule
^ NJT bus 125 schedule
^ NJT bus 319 schedule
^ http://www.jerseyjitneys.info/?page_id=15

External links

[2015Ridership-1] "PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

[2] [1] Wikipmapia JSQ Trans Ctr

[3] Cohen, A. Burton. "Hudson County Boulevard Bridge Plaza." Purdue Engineering Review 21, No. 4 (May 1926): 3-6, 22.

[4] Construction of The PATH Journal Square Transportation Center; 1968

[5] Port Authority:JSQ Trans Ctr history

[AngelKaren1-6] Angel, Karen. "Journal Squared: A Jersey City neighborhood's housing multiplies." The New York Daily News. Friday November 13, 2009. 1. Retrieved on November 13, 2009.

[7] Robinson statue and marker

[8] Port Authority: JSQ Trans Ctr

[tracks-9] Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.

[10] JSQ carriers and routes

[11] NJT bus 1 schedule

[12] NJT bus 2 schedule

[13] NJT bus 6 schedule

[14] NJT bus 64 schedule

[15] NJT bus 67 schedule

[NJT_80_schedule-16] NJT 80 schedule Archived July 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[17] NJT 83 schedule

[18] NJT 84 schedule

[NJT_bus_87_schedule-19] NJT bus 87 schedule

[20] NJT bus 88 schedule

[21] NJT bus 125 schedule

[22] NJT bus 319 schedule

[23] ttp://www.jerseyjitneys.info/?page_id=15

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v t e PATH
Services	NWK–WTC HOB–WTC HOB–33 JSQ–33 JSQ–33 via HOB
Stations	Exchange Place Grove Street Harrison Hoboken Journal Square Newark Newport Christopher Street Ninth Street 14th Street 23rd Street 33rd Street World Trade Center
Infrastructure	Dock Bridge Downtown Hudson Tubes PATH Lift Bridge Uptown Hudson Tubes
Historical/Former	Centre Street Bridge Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse Hudson Terminal Manhattan Transfer Park Place
Fares	SmartLink MetroCard OMNY (future)
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