Journal Square Transportation Center

Journal Square

Station statistics

Address

Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, New Jersey

Lines

NWK–WTC

JSQ–33

JSQ–33 (via HOB)

Platforms

2 island platforms

Tracks

Parking

464-car parking garage

Other information

Opened

1912

Rebuilt

late 1960s, early 1970s

Accessible

Owned by

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Traffic

Passengers (1999)

6.561 million 5%

Services

Preceding station	PATH	Following station
	Regular service
Harrison toward Newark	NWK–WTC	Grove Street toward World Trade Center
Terminus	JSQ–33	Grove Street toward 33rd Street
	Nights and weekends
Harrison toward Newark	NWK–WTC	Grove Street toward World Trade Center
Terminus	JSQ–33 (via HOB)	Grove Street toward 33rd Street

The Journal Square Transportation Center is a multi-modal transportation hub located on Kennedy Boulevard at Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.^[1] Owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the complex includes a ten-story tower, a retail plaza, a bus station, a two-level parking facility, and the Journal Square station of PATH rail transit system. The underground station has a high ceiling and a mezzanine level connecting the platforms. The upper level of the station contains a bank of escalators leading to street level, elevators to parking, and a series of escalators leading to the street-level bus bays.

1 Construction
2 Vicinity
3 Rapid transit
4 Bus
5 References
6 External links

Construction

The center was opened in stages in 1973, 1974, and 1975^[2] during the late phases of the Brutalist architecture movement. It is constructed over the Bergen Hill Cut, an excavated ravine, originally opened in 1834 and later used by the Jersey City Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Freight trains on the Passaic and Harsimus Line occasionally make use of the cut to traverse the Palisades along tracks north of the mass transit system.

The open-spandrel concrete arch bridge carrying Kennedy Boulevard and the station, built in 1926, is a pared-down version of a more ambitious elevated plaza scheme proposed by consulting engineer Abraham Burton Cohen. Passageways were suspended from the arches to connect the railroad station to bus stops on the bridge deck above.^[3] The original mid-roadway bus stop islands have since been removed.

The center is sometimes viewed as having contributed to the decline of the district by moving the train-bus interchange, and thus pedestrians, away from other commercial activities around the square ^[4]

A statue of Jackie Robinson at the center was dedicated in 1998.^[5]

Vicinity

Journal Square
Bergen Square
India Square
Five Corners
Hudson County Community College
Hudson County Courthouse and Administration Building
Loew's Jersey Theater
Marion Section
Stanley Theater
Beacon
Saint Peter's College

Rapid transit

The Journal Square PATH station opened on April 14, 1912, as the Summit Avenue Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. Currently it is served by two lines of the Port Authority Trans Hudson, being the terminus of the Journal Square-33rd Street route.^[6] At the platform level, the inside tracks are typically used by the Journal Square-33rd Street trains, while the outside tracks are used by the Newark-World Trade Center trains.

Bus

Regular frequent bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit and private enterprises for points throughout Hudson County and to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. There is also service to Newark, Hackensack, the Jersey Shore and Atlantic City .^[7] Bus arrivals and departures use platforms accessible from within the station or via Pavonia or Sip Avenues.

Route	destination	major points
Bergen A&C	Greenville	Bergen Square McGinley Square Bergen Avenue Old Bergen Road
1 NJT^[8]	Newark-Ivy Hill via Newark-Ironbound and Downtown Newark	West Side Lincoln Highway Ferry Street/Raymond Boulevard Market Street 16th Avenue
2 NJT^[9]	Secaucus Junction	Kennedy Boulevard County Avenue Meadowlands Parkway
6 NJT^[10]	Greenville Merritt Street or Lafayette Loop Liberty State Park	Summit Avenue Communipaw Junction Ocean Avenue
10/99s southbound R&T^[11]	Bayonne JFK Blvd and 3rd Street	Kennedy Boulevard
10/99s northbound for express service see X99S R&T^[11]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard Central Avenue 9th Street-Congress Street HBLR
64N limited weekday service no weekend service NJT^[12]	Lakewood NJT Bus Terminal	U.S. Route 9
67 limited service NJT^[13]	Toms River Park and Ride via Lakewood seasonal:Seaside Heights	U.S. Route 9 Route 549
80 eastbound NJT^[14]	Exchange Place	Newark Avenue
80 southbound NJT^[14]	Greenville regular service Hudson County Correction Facility limited service	West Side Avenue or Lincoln Highway limited service
83 NJT^[15]	Hackensack Bus Terminal	Summit Avenue Bergen Turnpike Tonnelle Avenue U.S. Route 46 Main Street
84 NJT^[16]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Newark Avenue Palisade Avenue Bergenline
87 southbound NJT^[17]	Greenville Gates Avenue	Bergen Square MLK Drive Old Bergen Road
87 northbound NJT^[17]	Hudson Place Hoboken Terminal	Central Avenue Palisade Avenue 9th Street-Congress Street HBLR Paterson Plank Road
88 NJT^[18]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Kennedy Boulevard
X99s northbound bus stop located on Kennedy Blvd R&T^[19]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard 9th Street-Congress Street HBLR 14th Street Viaduct
125 NJT^[20]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard Marginal Highway
319 NJT^[21]	Atlantic City Bus Terminal or Wildwood Bus Terminal Seasonal:Cape May	Garden State Parkway Express to Sea Isle City (stops in Toms River)
440 Shopper A&C	Hudson Mall	Marion Section West Side Avenue Route 440
Society Hill A&C	Society Hill	Marion Section West Side Avenue Droyer's Point

References

^ [1] Wikipmapia JSQ Trans Ctr
^ Port Authority:JSQ Trans Ctr history
^ Cohen, A. Burton. "Hudson County Boulevard Bridge Plaza." Purdue Engineering Review 21, No. 4 (May 1926): 3-6, 22.
^ Angel, Karen. "Journal Squared: A Jersey City neighborhood's housing multiplies." The New York Daily News. Friday November 13, 2009. 1. Retrieved on November 13, 2009.
^ Robinson statue and marker
^ Port Authority: JSQ Trans Ctr
^ JSQ carriers and routes
^ NJT bus 1 schedule
^ NJT bus 2 schedule
^ NJT bus 6 schedule
^ ^a ^b Routes 10/99S schedule
^ NJT bus 64 schedule
^ NJT bus 67 schedule
^ ^a ^b NJT 80 schedule
^ NJT 83 schedule
^ NJT 84 schedule
^ ^a ^b NJT bus 87 schedule
^ NJT bus 88 schedule
^ Route 10/99S schedule
^ NJT bus 125 schedule
^ NJT bus 319 schedule

External links

Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)

Services	HOB–33 · HOB–WTC · JSQ–33 · JSQ–33 (via HOB) · NWK–WTC

Stations	9th Street · 14th Street · 23rd Street · 33rd Street · Christopher Street · Exchange Place · Grove Street · Harrison · Hoboken · Journal Square · Newark · Newport · World Trade Center

Infrastructure	Dock Bridge · Downtown Hudson Tubes · Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse · PATH Lift Bridge · Uptown Hudson Tubes

Miscellaneous	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey · SmartLink

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Seaports	Howland Hook Port Jersey Port Newark-Elizabeth Red Hook

Airports	Kennedy LaGuardia Newark Liberty Stewart Teterboro Downtown Manhattan Heliport

Bridges and tunnels	Bayonne Bridge George Washington Bridge Goethals Bridge Holland Tunnel Lincoln Tunnel Outerbridge Crossing

Rail	AirTrain JFK AirTrain Newark NYNJ Rail Port Authority Trans-Hudson

Bus stations	GWB Bus Station Journal Square Port Authority Bus Terminal

Other	Battery Park City Ferry Terminal MOTBY Police Department World Trade Center

New Jersey Transit Bus Operations

Routes	1-99 • 100-199 • 300-399 • 400-449 • 450-499 • 500-549 • 550-599 • 600–699 • 700-799 • 800-880 • Wheels Suburban Transportation

Other	New Jersey Transit-purchased bus fleet • Newark Light Rail • PABCO Transit

Greater New York region bus transit

Transportation in New York City • Mass transit in New York City

Operators

NY	Public : MTA Regional Bus Operations : (New York City Bus \| MTA Bus) • Bee-Line System • Clarkstown Mini-Trans • Dutchess LOOP • Long Beach Bus • Huntington Area Rapid Transit • Kingston Citibus • Nassau Inter-County Express • Poughkeepsie Transit • Putnam Transit • Roosevelt Island Red Bus • Suffolk Transit • Transport of Rockland • Ulster County Area Transit Private : Atlantic Express • Hampton Jitney • Leprechaun Lines • Liberty Lines • Monsey Trails • New York Airport Service • Pine Hill/Adirondack Trailways • Rockland Coaches • Short Line Bus

NJ/ PA	Public : New Jersey Transit Bus Operations Private : A&C Bus • Academy Bus • Broadway Bus • Carefree Bus • Coach USA : (Community Coach \| Olympia Trails \| Rockland Coaches \| Short Line Bus \| Suburban Trails) • DeCamp Bus Lines • Lakeland Bus Lines • Martz Trailways • PABCO Transit • Trans-Bridge Lines

CT	Connecticut Transit : (Stamford \| New Haven \| Waterbury) • Norwalk Transit District • Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority • Housatonic Area Regional Transit • Milford Transit District

Routes

NY	Bronx • Brooklyn • Manhattan • Queens • Staten Island • Express within NYC • Dutchess • Nassau • Putnam • Rockland • Suffolk • Ulster • Westchester

NJ	Bergen/Passaic • Essex/Hudson/Union • Mercer • Middlesex/Monmouth/Morris • North Jersey to New York City • Special event and park-ride • Suburban New Jersey

CT	Bridgeport • Danbury • New Haven • Norwalk • Stamford

Defunct
operators

NY	Command Bus • Fifth Avenue Coach Company • Green Lines • Jamaica Buses • Liberty Lines Express • Long Island Bus • New York Bus Service • Queens Surface Corporation • Triboro Coach

NJ	Public Service Coordinated Transport/Transport of New Jersey