One quarter mile,” County Executive Tom DeGise told Marilyn Shazor, the regional administrator the Federal Transit Administration (and a Secaucus resident), during a countywide tour of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Line on Wednesday, Sept 2. He explained that if the existing light rail tracks were extended just a quarter of a mile in Jersey City, he said, this could double the property values along the Hackensack River, and open a whole new Gold Coast for development there...

...DeGise, Zimmer, and others joined U.S. Senator Robert Menendez on a 21-mile tour of the HBLR system to show that the Hudson system is a model for the rest of the nation, and could also be expanded.

Originally it was expected to extend into Bergen County, but lack of ability to decide the route had delayed the implementation, said Menendez.

“I was mayor of Union City when this was first proposed, and I know how hard it was to get 12 mayors to agree,” he said. 

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