Riverfront Stadium (NLR station)

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Riverfront Stadium
Station statistics
Address	Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium Newark, NJ
Lines	Newark Light Rail
Connections	NJT Bus: 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 39, 43, 72, 76, 78 (northbound only)
Other information
Accessible
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Fare zone	1
Services
Preceding station   Newark Light Rail   Following station Atlantic Street toward Newark Penn   Newark Light Rail (northbound)   Broad Street toward Newark Broad

Riverfront Stadium is a light rail station on the new Newark Light Rail line (the first segment of the proposed Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link). Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. ^[1]

It is located in Downtown Newark, New Jersey. Riverfront Stadium Station is an above ground stop in front of Gate C at Newark's Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, the home of the Newark Bears, an Atlantic League baseball team. This stop will provide service to the stadium on game days and possibly other scheduled events, but for non-game days riders can use the nearby Broad Street and Washington Park stations.

[edit] References

1. ^ New Jersey Transit Travel Alert announcing opening of Newark Light Rail Extended service.