Journal Square Transportation Center

Journal Square
Location	Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°43′56″N 74°03′47″W / 40.732141°N 74.063114°W / 40.732141; -74.063114Coordinates: 40°43′56″N 74°03′47″W / 40.732141°N 74.063114°W / 40.732141; -74.063114
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	NWK–WTC   JSQ–33   JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 1, 2, 6, 10, 64, 67, 80, 83, 84, 87, 88, 119, 125, 319 A&C Bus Corporation (Bergen Avenue, 440 Shopper, Society Hill)
Construction
Parking	464-car parking garage
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1912
Rebuilt	1968 to mid-1970s
Electrified	600V (DC) Third Rail
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	8,175,580  1.2%
Services
Preceding station   PATH   Following station   Regular service   Harrison toward Newark NWK–WTC Grove Street toward World Trade Center Newark Terminus Exchange Place toward World Trade Center Terminus JSQ–33 Grove Street toward 33rd Street Newport toward 33rd Street   Nights and weekends   Harrison toward Newark NWK–WTC Grove Street toward World Trade Center Newark Terminus Exchange Place toward World Trade Center Terminus JSQ–33 (via HOB) Grove Street toward 33rd Street Newport toward 33rd Street   Former services   Pennsylvania Railroad Harrison toward Bay Head Junction New York and Long Branch Railroad Exchange Place Terminus Preceding station   Hudson and Manhattan Railroad   Following station Manhattan Transfer toward Park Place Park Place – Hudson Terminal Grove-Henderson Streets toward Hudson Terminal

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. 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 terminal, a two-level parking facility, and the Journal Square station of the 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.

The JSTC was originally the site of the Summit Avenue Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. Summit Avenue station was built on April 14, 1912. The district was renamed Journal Square in the 1920s.

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. The original mid-roadway bus stop islands have since been removed.

The H&M was acquired by PATH in 1962, and reconstruction of the station began in 1968. Though the cornerstone was installed on September 20, 1972, the center itself was opened in stages in 1973, 1974, and 1975 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.

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