List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
There are numerous of
Hudson Palisades, starting at sea level at Bergen Point and rising to 260 feet travelling through Bayonne, Jersey City and North Hudson. Secaucus and most of West Hudson are part of the New Jersey Meadowlands
. Listings are generally from south to north.
Hudson River
| Crossing | Carries | Location | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Hudson Tubes | Port Authority Trans-Hudson
|
World Trade Center
|
40°42′54″N 74°01′28″W / 40.7151°N 74.0244°W |
| Holland Tunnel | Jersey City and Lower Manhattan | 40°43′39″N 74°01′16″W / 40.72750°N 74.02111°W | |
| Uptown Hudson Tubes | Port Authority Trans-Hudson
|
Jersey City and Manhattan | |
Gateway Tunnel (proposed) |
New Jersey Transit
|
North Bergen and Midtown Manhattan | |
THE Tunnel (project cancelled) |
New Jersey Transit
|
Penn Station
|
|
| North River Tunnels | New Jersey Transit
|
Weehawken and Midtown Manhattan | 40°45′32″N 74°00′46″W / 40.75889°N 74.01278°W |
| Lincoln Tunnel | NJ 495
|
Weehawken and Midtown Manhattan | 40°45′47″N 74°00′36″W / 40.76306°N 74.01000°W |
| The next crossing to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County | |||
| George Washington Bridge | US 46
|
Fort Lee and Upper Manhattan | 40°51′05″N 73°57′09″W / 40.85139°N 73.95250°W |
Kill van Kull and Newark Bay
| Crossing | Carries | Location | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayonne Bridge | NY 440
|
Bayonne - Staten Island | |
| CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge (defunct) |
Central Railroad of New Jersey | Elizabethport
|
40°39′16″N 74°09′00″W / 40.6545°N 74.15°W |
| Newark Bay Bridge |  I-78New Jersey Turnpike |
Bayonne - Newark | |
| Upper Bay Bridge | Bayonne - Newark | 40°41′57″N 74°06′36″W / 40.699052°N 74.11°W |
Hackensack River
Passaic River
Bergen Hill-Hudson Palisades
| Railroad tunnels, cuts, viaducts and right of ways |
Location | original use | Current use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Railroad of New Jersey | Bayonne and Greenville | Main Line to Communipaw Terminal partially built along the former Morris Canal |
8th Street
|
| Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway | Bayonne, Greenville, Downtown Jersey City | Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway | North Jersey Shared Assets Area
|
Newark and New York Railroad (1869)[5]
|
West Side & Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City | CRRNJ Terminal
|
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail West Side Branch
|
| National Docks Secondary (1897) | Downtown Jersey City | National Docks | North Jersey Shared Assets
CSX Transportation |
Bergen Hill Cut (1838)[1]
|
Journal Square | Exchange Place or Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove
|
North Jersey Shared Assets Area
|
| Harsimus Stem Embankment | Harsimus & Hamilton Park | Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove abattoir
|
unused |
| Bergen Arches (1910)[6] | Jersey City Heights
|
2nd Erie Cut Erie Railroad to Pavonia Terminal |
unused |
| Long Dock Tunnel (1860)[7] | Jersey City Heights
|
First Erie Cut to Pavonia Terminal | Norfolk Southern
|
| Bergen Tunnels (1876) & (1908)[8] | Jersey City Heights
|
Erie Lackawanna
|
New Jersey Transit to Hoboken Terminal .
|
Hoboken Elevated
|
Hoboken Terminal - Palisade Avenue | Public Service Railway
|
dismantled after bustitution in 1949
|
Gateway Tunnel (proposed) |
New Jersey Transit
|
North Bergen and Midtown Manhattan | |
THE Tunnel
|
North Bergen - Weehawken | New Penn Station (New York)
|
construction cancelled October 2010 |
| New York Tunnel Extension (1910) western entrance Bergen Portal[9] |
North Bergen - Weehawken | Pennsylvania Railroad to North River Tunnels | |
| Eldorado Cut (1893)[10] | Weehawken | for streetcar lines to Nungessers
| |
| Weehawken Tunnel (1861)[11][12][13] | Weehawken Port Imperial
|
New York Central West Shore Railroad
|
Bergenline Station
|
| The next cut and tunnel to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County | |||
Edgewater Tunnel (1894)[14]
|
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway cut and tunnel[15] | unused | |
| vehicular cuts | carries | location | connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Highway (Depressed Highway) |
 New Jersey Route 139
|
Jersey City | Pulaski Skyway - Holland Tunnel |
| Lincoln Tunnel Approach/Lincoln Tunnel Helix |  NJ Route 495
|
North Hudson | New Jersey Turnpike - Lincoln Tunnel |
| The next vehicular cut to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County | |||
GWB Plaza
|
     
|
Fort Lee | to George Washington Bridge |
| There are numerous excavations for roads on the eastern escarpment of the Gorge Road
| |||
Meadowlands
The Sawtooth Bridges carry the Northeast Corridor over NJ Transit, PATH, and Conrail.
See also
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
- Timeline of Jersey City area railroads
References
- ^ a b c Bulger, Teresa D. (May 7, 2019). "Feats of Engineering: Bridging the Hackensack River and Cutting through Bergen HillDocumentation for Three Historic Resources that Help Move Commerce and Commuters throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey" (PDF). NJDOT. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ "Jersey: Jersey City Bridge Profile". Shoutingthomas.typepad.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "RIME Team wins Grand Award with the Project Team for the Lewandowski Memorial Hackensack River Bridge". Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation Group/Intelligent Bridge Engineering and Advanced Materials Laboratory. June 16, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090327025729/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/essex.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Pennsylvania Railroad cut, Mt Pleasant, Jersey City, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA". Mindat.org. October 11, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "Bergen Arches". Njcu.edu. Archived from the original on September 29, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "Stone above Long Dock Tunnel". Modelengineers.org. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7385-0966-2
- ^ "The Bergen Hill Tunnels". Gutenberg.org. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "JFK Blvd. Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "Design And Construction Of The Weehawken Tunnel And Bergenline Avenue Station For The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System - Publications Index". Pubsindex.trb.org. November 2003. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA". Mindat.org. July 30, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ NJDOT Web Development Unit. "Paterson Plank Road Project Debuts in Hudson County". Nj.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "The Palisades Tunnel" (PDF). The New York Times. March 17, 1893.
- ^ Palisades diabase
