Englewood Route 4 | |
Style: | NJ Transit |
Type: | Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station |
Borough: | Englewood, New Jersey |
Coordinates: | 40.8804°N -73.9845°W |
Owned: | New Jersey Transit |
Line: | HBLR Northern Branch |
Platforms: | 1 |
Tracks: | 2 |
Parking: | 945 |
Opened: | TBD |
Other Services2 Header: | Proposed services |
Other Services2 Collapsible: | yes |
Englewood Route 4 is a proposed station along NJ Transit's Northern Branch Corridor Project extension of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in Englewood in lower reaches of the Northern Valley in Bergen County, New Jersey.[1] The station site is along the CSX Transportation (CSXT) Northern Branch where it runs under New Jersey Route 4 at MP 8.8,[2] east of Nordhoff Place and north of Sheffield Avenue.[3]
The station is designed to have an island platform, partially located under Route 4.[4] It will include a parking deck for 945 vehicles incorporated into a storage and maintenance VBF (vehicle base facility).[5] Vehicle access from Route 4 will be via Grand Avenue (concurrent County Route 501 and New Jersey Route 93). Approximately 6acres of property will be acquired to build the parking deck and VBF.[6] Two other HBLR stations are planned in the city further north of Englewood Route 4 at Englewood Town Center and at Englewood Hospital, the line's terminus.[3]
The area radiating from the station site has been dubbed Englewood South. It is zoned for planned unit development (PUD) and consists mixed-use development that is undergoing a transformation from a warehouse distribution & manufacturing district into a residential, retail, and business neighborhood.[7] [8]
Rail service in Englewood began in 1859 when the region was still known as the English Neighborhood.[9] By 1887 Erie Railroad's Northern Branch had three stops in the city: the southernmost at Nordhoff (#1919) (later Sheffield Avenue), the central depot at Englewood (#1921), and the northernmost at Highwood (#1923) (later Hudson Avenue).[10] [11] [12] [13]