
Nearly all local passengers either drive, take NJT buses or shuttles to reach the station. The station was originally supposed to spearhead a transit oriented development with office buildings proposed to be built above the station but nothing every came of this so today the vast majority of riders are transferring passengers although there is a Park Fast Parking lot at $7 per day and a small new townhouse development. It is clearly visible from the eastern spur of the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) which is adjacent to it and is directly served by interchange 15X built for the station.
NJ TRANSIT TRAIN SECAUCUS WINDOWS
The large and airy beige station with plenty of windows rises up and out of the swamps of the Meadowlands. There are no track connections between the electrified upper level of the station on the Northeast Corridor and electrified, diesel-only lower level used by Main, Bergen County, and Pascack Valley Line trains. The station is only a junction for transferring passengers. Secaucus Transfer (used in the planning and construction stages) is more appropriate. The opening of the $450 million station in 2003 (with $53 million provided by the MTA Capital Program for the improvements to the Metro-North Port Jervis and Pascack Valley Lines that are operated under contract to New Jersey Transit and stop at the station) provides easy transferring opportunities for passengers between all New Jersey Transit lines and stations except for those on the Atlantic City Line. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Rail Station (at Allied Junction) is located in the New Jersey Meadowlands at the crossing point where the ex-Lackawanna Boonton Line crosses the ex-Pennsylvania Northeast Corridor's New York Tunnel Extension in the middle of the former Croxton freight yards. Proof of vaccination is not required for the MetLife show.Home
