North Brunswick | |||||||||||
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| Location | North Brunswick, NJ | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°26′17″N 74°29′53″W / 40.438°N 74.498°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Northeast Corridor | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island (initial) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | TBA | ||||||||||
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North Brunswick is a proposed railroad station along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in North Brunswick, New Jersey, that will be built by New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT) to serve its Northeast Corridor Line. Approved in 2013, it was planned to open in 2018[1][2] and projected to cost $30 million.[3] It is one of several projects along the "New Jersey Speedway" section of the NEC.
The station was proposed for the former Johnson & Johnson[4] facility on Route 1 and Aaron Road by the new owners of the 212-acre (86 ha) site,[5] and is part of a transit-oriented development known as Main Street North Brunswick,[2][6] New Jersey Transit's Fiscal 2015 capital budget allocated funding for the station.[7][8] which has been designated a transit-oriented development, or 'transit village'.[9]
As of mid-2017, construction of the project had not begun.[10] In October 2017, it was announced the project had received $50 million from the Transportation Trust Fund.[11] In October 2019, NJT and Middlesex County had committed $70 million to start work on the station.[12][13] In 2021 the County Improvement Authority hired WSP USA to design the station.[14] Initial designs were released in March 2023. Construction is slated to begin 2025.[15][16]
Although station construction has yet to begin (as of 2024), the Main Street North Brunswick transit village has continued to develop, with Costco and Target opening in 2014, Panera Bread opening in 2017, Courtyard by Marriott opening in 2019, Shake Shack opening in 2024, and 100 townhomes fully occupied.[9]
- ^ Chang, Kathy (January 17, 2013). "NJ Transit announces approval of train station: Northeast Corridor line will run through MainStreetNB project, to be built along Route 1 north". The Sentinel. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Frassinelli2013was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Chang, Kathy (February 20, 2014). "Settlement adds affordable housing to transit village". North South Brunswick Sentinel. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
- ^ "In North Brunswick, train is finally pulling into station". NJBIZ. April 22, 2013.
- ^ History, Our Town Center. Accessed November 25, 2012.
- ^ Kalet, Hank (January 28, 2015). "NEC to get new NJT stop". NewsWorks. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015.
- ^ "NJ TRANSIT ADOPTS FISCAL YEAR 2015 OPERATING, CAPITAL BUDGETS". New Jersey Transit. July 9, 2014.
- ^ Chang, Kathy (July 31, 2014). "Costco opens as first part of transit village". East Brunswick Sentinel. Archived from the original on June 24, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "North Brunswick Transit Village".
- ^ Corasaniti, Nick (March 2, 2017). "New Jersey Area Rising Around Transit Hub Lacks One Thing: Its Hub". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ^ Amato, Jennifer (October 31, 2017). "North Brunswick is riding high on train station announcement". www.centraljersey.com. Archived from the original on November 1, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ^ Higgs, Larry (October 30, 2019). "Central Jersey is getting a new train station, but we don't know how much it'll cost". nj. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- ^ Flanagan, Brenda (October 31, 2019). "NJ Transit Enlists Ally for Long Delayed North Brunswick Train Station". NJ Spotlight. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ^ Loyer, Susan (April 16, 2021). "North Brunswick train station project takes another major step". MyCentralJersey.com. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- ^ "North Brunswick Train Station". Middlesex County, NJ.
- ^ Fry, Chris (March 6, 2023). "Plans Revealed for NJ Transit's North Brunswick Train Station". Jersey Digs.