Hudson Place (Hoboken)

County Route 736
Hudson Place
Route information
Length:	0.05 mi[1] (0.08 km)
Major junctions
West end:	Hudson Street
East end:	Hoboken Terminal
Highway system
County routes in New Jersey 500-series County routes in Hudson County

PATH kiosk with Hudson Place and bus terminal in background

Hudson Place ends at main entrance to Hoboken Terminal

Bus terminal

Facing east

Hudson Place, designated Hudson County Route 736, is a 0.05 mile (0.08 km) long street in Hoboken, New Jersey that runs along the north side of Hoboken Terminal, providing the only automobile access to the major transportation hub. The street ends at Warrington Plaza, where the original ferry slips and main entrance to the waiting room of the station are located.^[2] The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway crosses the foot of the street.

Transit hub

For many years Hudson Place functioned similarly to Exchange Place farther down the Hudson waterfront as a terminus for many trolley lines which crisscrossed Hudson County. One of the few cobbled streets left within it, the streetcar tracks can still be seen.^[3] At one time more than ten lines operated by the Public Service Railway originated and terminated here, including the Hoboken Elevated. The last to depart was the #7 Jackson on August 7, 1949. The current bus terminal was built soon after bustitution was completed.^[4]

Between 2010 and 2011, the City of Hoboken conducted a two phase renovation of Hudson Place to address the historically high volumes of conflicting pedestrian and automobile traffic, further exacerbated by taxi, shuttle, and delivery activities that have increased in recent years. The project involved a redesign of the existing carriageway and sidewalks to better balance the demands of all traffic modes, reduce vehicle speeds at critical crossings, and to separate overlapping modes of traffic, such as the taxi stand from kiss-and-ride activities. The project was split into two phases - one for each block segment - and included a more efficient taxi stand, significantly reduced pedestrian crossing distances, over one hundred additional bicycle parking spaces including an on-street "bike corral", exclusive shuttle stops, and improved traffic flow. The New Jersey State funded project is considered a successful example of "complete streets" and has been featured as a low-cost best practice redesign demonstration.^[5]

Bus service

Current New Jersey Transit bus operations are as follows:

Route	Destination	Major streets
22 NJT[6]	Nungessers North Bergen	Washington Street 14th Street Viaduct New York/Bergenline
22X (peak service only) NJT[7]	Bergenline HBLR station 48th St	Observer Highway Paterson Plank Road 9th-Congress HBLR station New York or Bergenline
23 (peak service only) NJT[8]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Port Imperial (HBLR station) Boulevard East
64 (peak service only)	Lakewood	Route 18
68 (peak service only) NJT[9]	Old Bridge	Route 18
85 NJT[10]	Harmon Meadow Secaucus	Paterson Plank Road 9th-Congress HBLR station Transfer Station
87 NJT[11]	Greenville Gates Avenue Jersey City	Paterson Plank Road 9th-Congress HBLR station Central Avenue Journal Square MLK Drive Old Bergen Road
89 NJT[12]	Nungesser's North Bergen	Washington Street 14th Street Willow Ave/Park Ave 48th St Bergenline HBLR station Bergenline Avenue
126 NJT[13]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street Manhattan	Washington Street Willow Avenue Lincoln Tunnel

See also

• North Hudson County Railway
• List of Public Service Railway lines

References

1. "Hudson County 736 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
2. Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 0-88097-763-9.
3. Forgetten Hoboken w/ photo of Hudson Place tracks]
4. French, Kenneth, Images of Rail: Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City,Arcadia Publishing, 2002, p125, ISBN 978-0-7385-0966-2
5. http://www.hobokennj.org/2010/10/construction-to-begin-on-hudson-place-pedestrian-safety-improvements/
6. NJT bus 22 schedule
7. NJT bus 22 schedule
8. NJT bus 23 schedule
9. NJT bus 68 schedule
10. NJT bus 85 schedule
11. NJT bus 87 schedule
12. NJT bus 89 schedule
13. NJT bus 126 schedule

Coordinates: 40°44′10″N 74°01′49″W / 40.73601°N 74.030195°W