Transport of New Jersey

Steel Railway and bus company (1917–1980)

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Transport of New Jersey

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Overview
Owner| Public Service Corporation
Area served| New Jersey
Locale| New Jersey
Transit type| Tram and Bus
Operation
Began operation| 1917 (1917)
Ended operation| 1980; 45 years ago (1980)

Transport of New Jersey (TNJ), earlier Public Service Transportation and then Public Service Coordinated Transport, was a street railway and bus company in the U.S. state of New Jersey from 1917 to 1980, when NJ Transit took over their operations. It was owned by the Public Service Corporation, now the Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

## History

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### 20th century

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The Public Service-operated Edgewater, running the 125th Street Ferry route from Edgewater Ferry Terminal to 125th Street in Manhattan in 1941 Edgewater trolley terminal in the early 20th century

The Public Service Railway operated most of the trolley lines in New Jersey by the early 20th century. Public Service lines stretched from northeast New Jersey to Trenton, and then south to Camden and its suburbs. Major parts of the system were:[citation needed]

* The Newark Public Service Terminal, a two-level terminal in downtown Newark.
* The Hoboken Inclined Cable Railway, an elevated railway from Hoboken Terminal up the New Jersey Palisades into Jersey City and south to near Journal Square.
* The Newark-Trenton Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line mostly on private right-of-way from Newark to Trenton.[citation needed]

Public Service Transportation was formed in 1917 as a bus-operating subsidiary of the Public Service Corporation, supplementing the Public Service Railway's trolley lines. In 1928, the operations of the two companies were merged to form Public Service Coordinated Transport. Over time, Public Service bustituted most routes.[citation needed]

The name was changed to Transport of New Jersey in 1971. PSE&G sold TNJ to New Jersey Transit Corporation in 1980. Although PSCT/TNJ had been a major profit center for PSE&G earlier in the century, PSE&G had increasingly felt chagrin at having to retain unprofitable routes, and believed the state could provide better service. PSE&G chairman Robert Smith said that he and his colleagues felt they were "getting rid of a headache."[1] Many of former PSCT/TNJ bus routes are still run by NJ Transit and even use the same number.[citation needed]

Following bustitution, the only streetcar route still in operation was the #7 line, in the form of the Newark City Subway.

### 21st century

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At the turn of the 21st century, the line was upgraded to operate new modern light rail cars, and was extended northward into Bloomfield. The system was renamed the Newark Light Rail. Additionally, a portion of an old spur tunnel to the abandoned Cedar Street Subway, another Public Service trolley conduit, has been rehabilitated and use to connect a second light rail line, which opened for service in 2006.[citation needed]

## See also

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* List of Public Service Railway lines
* Midtown Bridge (Hackensack River)

## References

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1. ^ Waldron, Martin (1980-09-18). "Jersey Acquires 2 Key Bus Lines For $32 Million; Byrne Describes Takeover as 'Truly Public Transit' Possible Rail Takeover 'Getting Rid of a Headache' Jersey Acquires Two Key Bus Lines". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-13.

## External links

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* Light Rail Now: January 2004 Northern New Jersey Light Rail Spectacular Comeback

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Public Service Railway.

* York Times, July 11, 1904 Buys Kearny Meadows Tract: Trolley Company May Shorten Newark-Jersey City Route
* Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-65, "Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops"

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* A&C
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Former streetcar
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New Jersey|

* North Hudson County Railway
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Connecticut|

* Connecticut Company
* Consolidated Railway
* Bridgeport Traction
* Connecticut Railway & Lighting
* Danbury and Bethel Street Railway
* Greenwich Tramway Company
* New York and Stamford Railway

Current operations|

| New Jersey|

* Hudson–Bergen Light Rail
* Newark Light Rail
* River Line

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Proposed operations|

| New York|

* Red Hook
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* 42nd Street
* Brooklyn–Queens Waterfront
* Lower Montauk

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New Jersey|

* HBLR Northern Branch

Connecticut|

* New Haven

Streetcar lists|

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