Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station)

Infobox Station
name=Bergenline Avenue
style=NJT Rail


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image_caption=Bergenline Avenue station at street level
address=Bergenline Avenue and 49th Street
Union City, NJ
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line=
other=NJT Bus:22, 84, 86, 89, 156, 159, and 181
(on Bergenline Avenue; 86 and 181 pull into the station)
88 and 154
(one block west on JFK Boulevard)
platform=1 island platform
levels=
tracks=2
parking=
bicycle=
baggage_check=
passengers=325,520
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=0
pass_system=
opened=February 25, 2006
closed=
rebuilt=
electrified=750VDC
ADA=yes
code=
owned=New Jersey Transit
zone=1
former=
services=
mpassengers=

Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at 49th Street in Union City, New Jersey. The station is the only underground station in the HBLR system, located 160 feet below Bergenline Avenue, near the borders with North Bergen and West New York. The station opened for service on February 25, 2006.

Southbound service from the station is available to Hoboken Terminal and to West Side Avenue in Jersey City (bypassing Hoboken Terminal). Transfers for service to 22nd Street in Bayonne are available at station stops between Hoboken Terminal and Liberty State Park. Northbound service is available to Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. Connections to PATH trains to Midtown Manhattan and to New Jersey Transit commuter train service are available at Hoboken Terminal. Transfers to PATH trains to Newark, Harrison, and Downtown Manhattan are available at Exchange Place.

Transfers

*The 22, 84, 86, 89, 156, 159, and 181 all stop at the Bergenline Avenue station, with most 86 and all 181 trips terminating at it.
*The 88 and 154 stop on John F. Kennedy Boulevard, one block west.

External links

* [http://www.mylightrail.com/index.php?option=com_hblr&task=station&Itemid=102&id=25 Station details]
* [http://www.njtransit.com/sf_lr.shtml New Jersey Transit - Light Rail]
* [http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0100.pdf Hudson-Bergen Light Rail schedule (PDF)]
* [http://subwaynut.com/hblr/bergenline/index.html Subway Nut station info and photos]