Teterboro station

Teterboro
Teterboro station in August 2008
Coordinates 40°51′53″N 74°03′46″W / 40.8648°N 74.0628°W / 40.8648; -74.0628Coordinates: 40°51′53″N 74°03′46″W / 40.8648°N 74.0628°W / 40.8648; -74.0628
Owned by NJ Transit
Line(s)
  Pascack Valley Line
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Other information
Station code 767 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone 4[2]
History
Previous names Williams Avenue[3]
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 96 (average weekday)[4]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
Pascack Valley Line
toward Hoboken
  Former services  
Erie Railroad
toward Haverstraw
New Jersey and New York Railroad
Hasbrouck Heights
toward Jersey City

Teterboro, formerly known as Williams Avenue,[3] is a NJ Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is in Hasbrouck Heights, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and is located on Williams Avenue near Route 17 and Route 46, near Teterboro Airport.

Teterboro is served by weekday trains only, and with the exception for one early morning train from Hoboken, there is no weekend or holiday service at this station.[2]

Station layout

The station has one track and one low-level side platform four cars long to its east. Although it was formerly named Williams Avenue, that street dead-ends on the line on the opposite side of the platform, which can only be accessed by Green Street that runs alongside it. Since there is no way to reach the station from its west side, customers from there often illegally crossed the tracks from the Williams Avenue dead-end to reach the platform. In February 2013, New Jersey Transit built a barbed-wire fence on this dead-end, forcing riders from the west side to loop around the station through Route 46 and Route 17, neither of which have sidewalks, to reach it. [5][6]

The platform has a wide painted yellow line below track level and a silver highway guard rail (with gaps to enter it) separating it from the 27-space parking lot that is in between it and Green Street. The southern end of the platform in the tiny area south of the parking lot's end has a bike rack for two behind a single wooden bench. There is a tiny silver shelter that has another bench next to the station's only ticket vending machine.

Ground/
Platform level		 Street level Ticket machines, parking
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1 ← Pascack Valley Line weekdays toward Spring Valley (Essex Street)
Pascack Valley Line weekdays toward Hoboken (Wood-Ridge) →
← Metro-North Express does not stop here →

References

  1. ↑ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF) (November 7, 2010 ed.). New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
  4. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Dude Where's My Train Station?". Systemic Failure. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Great Moments in NJ Transit: It costs what to build a fence?". Second Ave. Sagas. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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