South Amboy (NJT station)

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Coordinates: 40°28′58.57″N, 74°16′44.16″W

South Amboy

Station statistics

Address

Mason Street and Bordentown Avenue
South Amboy, New Jersey

Lines

North Jersey Coast Line

Connections

NJT Bus: 815 and 817

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Electrified

1938

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Fare zone

Traffic

Passengers (2005)

286,520 ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station		New Jersey Transit		Following station
Aberdeen-Matawan toward Bay Head		North Jersey Coast Line		Perth Amboy toward Hoboken or New York Penn

South Amboy is a station on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line located in South Amboy, New Jersey, United States. The station is 2½ miles east of Perth Amboy station and 5 miles west of Aberdeen-Matawan station. Electric trains from the north started terminating here in 1938, and many still do. This station is located at grade level on Mason Street, and has two low side platforms with three tracks.

[edit] Station construction and improvements

South Amboy station recently began to be upgraded for ADA and handicap access. Phase one of this project included the building of a new pedestrian overpass allowing safe transfers across the three tracks at the station. The bridge cost a total of $4.8m when it opened on 14 March 2005.^[1]

The second engineering and construction phase consists of replacing the side platforms with a new ADA-accessible high-level center platform^[2] and a reconstruction of the current station building.^[1] Among the new improvements to the station are a new ticket office, canopies, lighting, and signage when construction finishes in 2009.^[2] The cost of the new platform and station amenities amounts to $29m.^[3]