Scranton (NJT station)

Scranton is the proposed terminus for New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) passenger rail service from New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, via the Lackawanna Cut-Off to Scranton, Pennsylvania.^[1][2] Currently, NJ Transit provides rail service to Port Morris, New Jersey via the Lake Hopatcong station. The proposal is to extend this service to Andover, New Jersey in Phase I; to Blairstown, New Jersey or Analomink, Pennsylvania in Phase II; and to Scranton in Phase III. Depending on funding, these phases might be consecutive or concurrent.

The Scranton terminus will be a regional station^[3] near Steamtown. A new station would be built on Lackawanna Avenue along the northernmost track east of Bridge 60 (the railroad bridge over the Lackawanna River) and the Cliff Street underpass.^[4] For parking, the station will use about 30 spots in Steamtown's existing lot.

From 1908 through 1970, passenger service to Scranton used the Lackawanna Railroad's large station. Now a Radisson hotel, the building also housed the railroad's regional headaquarters.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Lackawanna Cutoff". New Jersey Transit. October 2009. http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=Project019To. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
2. ^ "NJ-ARP Annual Report 2008-2009" (pdf). November 19, 2009. http://www.nj-arp.org/annrpt_09.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
3. ^ "Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority: About Us". Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority. http://www.pnrra.org/page2.html. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
4. ^ NEW JERSEY – PENNSYLVANIA LACKAWANNA CUT-OFF PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE RESTORATION PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and NEW JERSEY TRANSIT in Cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, June 2008.
5. ^ "National Register of Historical Places - PENNSYLVANIA (PA), Lackawanna County". http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/pa/Lackawanna/state.html. Retrieved 2011-01-02.