| Secaucus Junction Fast Facts Building
Facts
* $450 million project
* 312,000 – square-feet
* Height – 130 feet
* Four-level structure
** Exterior – precast concrete exterior panels and tinted glazing
** Skylight above rotunda
** Interior walls – agglomerate and ceramic tiles
** Flooring – terrazzo, agglomerate and carpeting
** Main Line/Northeast Corridor Platforms – climate controlled waiting rooms
finished with granite pavers.
** Ceilings – linear metal pan and acoustic panels
* Customer amenities – 28 ticket vending machines, customer service offices,
public address system, passenger information systems, modern heating and air conditioning
system, four rest rooms, retail space, multiple artwork installations
* 31 escalators, 11 elevators, 36 stairways
* Served by 4 tracks on the Main Line and 4 tracks on the Northeast Corridor
Construction Facts
* Work site spanning two-and-one-half-miles
* Three miles of roads built or improved to provide access to the site
* Erected along active railroad right-of-way, including the busiest rail corridor in
the world (Northeast Corridor)
* 20 cranes simultaneously operated on the site
* 8,500 piles for Northeast Corridor track and station foundations
* 700 caissons installed, up to 7 feet in diameter
* 3,500 feet of new railroad embankment constructed
* Sixteen 200-foot tall transmission towers installed to support overhead electrical
wires (catenary wires)
* 19,000 feet of Northeast Corridor track, catenary and signal work
* 2.5 miles of new track and signals installed on the Main and Bergen County lines
* 19 new turnouts, including 6 that allow trains to switch from one track to another at
speeds up to 80 MPH
* 4 new major interlockings (track switch locations)
* 35 new signal houses, cases and bungalows installed
Creates Regional rail system
* Connects the Main, Bergen County, Pascack Valley, Northeast Corridor, North Jersey
Coast, Morristown, Gladstone, Montclair-Boonton, Raritan Valley and Port Jervis lines
Projected weekend ridership within first six months of service:
* 2,700 people per weekend day
Station benefits
* Creates new regional rail network
* Connects 10 of 11 NJ Transit rail lines, providing access to jobs and popular
recreational, entertainment and educational destinations
* Provides rail access to 15 counties in New Jersey and New York (Bergen, Passaic,
Hudson, Essex, Morris, Union, Somerset, Warren, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer,
Ocean, Orange and Rockland)
* Served by regional bus network
* 10-15 minutes of time savings for North Jersey and Upstate New York customers
traveling to/from midtown Manhattan
* Serves as economic development tool
* Creates the foundation to launch into the next generation of transportation services
including the purchase of bi-level rail cars, expanded parking and pursuit of a new rail
tunnel beneath the Hudson River
* Gives people another transportation alternative as they travel to New York, Newark,
Trenton, Bergen County, the Meadowlands, the Jersey Shore, Newark International
Airport and a host of other popular destinations
* Delivers more service and more seats to the NJ Transit rail system
* Provides additional rail access from Bergen and Passaic counties to eight major state
and private universities
Regional economic benefits
* Fostering the State’s "Smart Growth" plan by encouraging development
at and around rail stations throughout New Jersey. At the Secaucus Station, for example, a
development of 4 million square feet of office and commercial space will mean 17,000
additional jobs at the site.
* Providing access to more than one million jobs in midtown Manhattan
* Opening access to 60,000 jobs in downtown Newark and 25,000 jobs at Newark
International Airport and midtown Manhattan for 306,000 households in towns with train
stations in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties and another 100,000 households in suburban
New York
* Creating one-seat rail access to 40,000 to 50,000 jobs in the Meadowlands for more
than 1 million households. About 730,000 households would be within a one-hour rail
commute of the Meadowlands from northern New Jersey. NJ Transit buses will shuttle
passengers to the Meadowlands from the transfer station
* Generating increased tourist spending at beach resorts with connected rail access for
residents in Bergen/Passaic counties and two New York counties.
Source: NJ Transit |
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