Both are well-used but suffer from the congested roadways between the 2 cities... The Newark-Elizabeth routes and Airport / Port routes are also busy. The congestion on FRB needs to addressed... Central , Springfield and South Orange ave need BRT and Bloomfield needs a LRT.

Big question, did any agency out in the Lehigh Valley apply for FRA funding for a passenger rail corridor? Compared to other hopeful corridors, I've heard next to nothing from that area. As for the other projects, I've seen them mentioned in the NJ Transit capital plan but without any firm funding commitments.

The Waterfront Connection and Hunter Flyover along with the Passaic River Bridge replacement are in the funding phase... With Amtrak seeking to operate service to Eastern PA on the RVL and M&E I think you'll see those funded soon. They should run full weekend Montclair-Boonton line service not just the shuttle. The Union County BRT should be dropped in favor of the resurrecting the sheveled Newark-Elizabeth-Cranford LRT which was absent from this proposal.

My only gripe with these plans is that nothing ever comes of them or they duplicate existing plans or plan already sitting in development hell. Here are some transit projects/improvements in Northern New Jersey I would personally love to see. There are more things I would like to see of course, but I limited this list to the areas mentioned in this circular rail plan.

1. Better weekend service on the MOBO, i.e improved frequency and extension of the Bay Street-Hoboken Shuttle.
2. Improvements to Waterfront Connection to allow for more trains on NJ Transit's Newark Division to serve Hoboken Terminal. Hoboken Terminal is an underutilized asset. I would personally love to see all rush hour and weekend Raritan Valley Line trains terminate/originate at Hoboken Terminal when slots are not available at NY Penn. Construction of the Hunter Flyover would aide operational flexibility to better enable this.
3. Finally constructing the long awaited Northern Branch extension of the HBLR.
4. Extending the NLR to Paterson
5. Union County Bus Rapid Transit.
6. Bergen County BRT
7. Passaic-Bergen LRT project.

The 72 and 74 are long bus rides for non-NYC buses.

As rough as we'll have it, other places we'll get it much worse.

That area has a bunch of weird half empty blocks that I always wondered about.

Google maps says it is a good 25 minute walk to Newark Penn station. It's not near the transit at all.

I was wondering why it's so low , didn't realize Mulberry went all the way down there. I'm ok with that height in that part of the Ironbound. If it were near Penn then it should be a high rise or skyscraper.

I think it was mostly commercial/industrial but has been demolished and flat for quite a while.

The majority of the Ironbound is capped at 5 stories. When the city zoned a few blocks near Penn to 12 and the closest to Penn to like 30 some people lost their minds.

Edit: here’s the zoning map. https://www.newarknj.gov/zoning

Why can’t they go more vertical?

Typical Newarkphobic nimby bs.

They see "Newark" & the NYC worshippers go crazy.

Anyone know what used to be there?

This building would be steps away from a the proposed and then cancelled PATH station of PA didnt hate people

Which is why I laughed when some people make comments about "proper" English. Like, ...go back 300 years and try to have a conversation with an English speaker. They'd be about as effective a highschooler who took one year of Spanish.

Slowly piecing some of this together. The building at 0:57 is now 611 McCarter Highway. That's as far as I've gotten. (I should stop this and get to work, in fact!)

Need to spend much more time with this wonderful video. Thanks for posting!

Edit: Same building again at 2:34. Green area at 3:45 is now Raymond A. Brown Park. With the clear views of downtown, the location and direction is more obvious at this point.

Yes I believe so.

I see that starting around 2 minutes, but before that also?

Tbh lots of the proposed routes will be the first ones to go with climate change and rising water levels. We wont be taking refugees, we’ll BE the refugees.

From Philly to the shore and all the spots up to NYC.

The comments on the other subreddits are shocking...why do we need this...this is redundant...I guess they aren't aware of the gridlock and the strained bus system.

We're on a Pennsylvania Railroad train heading timetable west out of Newark Penn Station.

This is pretty cool, I would love to see this one day. Just need’s support and funding, and wait a decade or less if we lucky

They spelled Newark wrong on the last map

Should make 1 that connects all of NJ's big cities