Giants, Jets fans to get new rail line in two years Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 07/3/06 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EAST RUTHERFORD ? As a New York Giants season ticket holder, Darren Mischel knows how bad traffic gets when a game ends, with thousands of cars squeezing onto one-lane approaches to New Jersey expressways. "It's a nightmare," said Mischel, 31, a math teacher at Nutley High School.But in two years, fans attending games or events at the Meadowlands will have a new transportation option: the train. Construction has begun on a nearly 2.5-mile rail line that will connect the sports complex with New York's Penn Station and New Jersey Transit lines around the Garden State.An enormous pile of dirt ? 190,000 cubic yards, enough for a 100-foot mound of dirt on the football field ? now visible near the stadium will be used to lay a stable foundation for the rail bed, Lampen said. The tracks will be installed in about a year. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is funding the $150 million expansion, expected to be used by 8,000 to 10,000 fans per game. It will also provide access to Xanadu, an entertainment and retail development being built there.
The spur, off the Pascack Valley line, will start in Hoboken and make a stop at Secaucus Junction to pick up passengers transferring from other NJ Transit lines before reaching the Meadowlands.Fans would walk about a hundred feet to the entrance of the new $1 billion football stadium, to be jointly financed by the Jets and Giants and opened for the 2010 season. Fares and schedules will be determined closer to the start of the service, Warrington said. The ride will take about 12 minutes from Secaucus. Fans coming from Penn Station would switch trains at Secaucus for a 28-minute ride, including the transfer. About 90 percent of riders are expected to transfer at Secaucus.Service will begin in 2008, two years ahead of new stadium, which would seat 82,500. The teams are now marketing naming rights for the stadium and the first public hearings on its design begin on July 12. The rail line can transport up to 7,000 people an hour before an event and up to 12,000 an hour after. > above is from the following article : Train to Meadowlands under construction By JANET FRANKSTON / Associated Press Writer 2006 Newsday Inc.
Considering that the car theft capital of NJ (Newark) is only a 15 minute ride away without traffic; has the Meadowlands said anything about beefing up it's security in order to prevent cars from being stolen and/or vandalized while the games are going on? With the trains running regularly, and a two (2) hour head start on the theft being reported (because everybody is in the stadium watching the game) I see the potential for some mischief.
This is great games are gonna be so much easier to go to now that their gonna built trains running through the meadowlands. I could also use that train to go see Devils games also during the hockey season.
Yea your right well in that case I could still take the train to Newark Penn Station to get to the games.
Sounds like over Two Hours from Mid Long Island.... Meh. I'll just keep pumping my money into my home entertainment system and watch all the games.
come on jet blue, " . . . over Two Hours . . . " ; thats better than 7.5 hrs on a direct flight from Copenhagen.
My truck got stolen while i was at a game about 6 years ago. I parked at that hotel on Rt 3, right down from Clifton Commons, it used to be Bumpers, and then Checkers, and whatever it is now, anyway, I had this old beater of a truck and it got jacked. They found it in Newark a few days later, all windows smashed, seats torn up, basically gutted, but they couldnt kill it. 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Wood panelling and all. Truck was a beast, I miss it. Anyway, that strecth there from Clifton Commons down is a hotbed for thefts. Kids come up from Newark, take a few cars home down Rt21 and bye bye. Mine was just for a joyride, worth more as scrap metal than parts. Side note, looking very fwd to the Devils move to Newark, I will be taking the train to those games regularly. 20 minute direct train ride for me from home. Sweet!
