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7/13/2022
New Jersey Transit has received a $519,750 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to study ways to modernize Newark's light-rail network.
The study will examine options for improving existing station design and rider experience, as well as making four stations — Military Park, Warren Street/New Jersey Institute of Technology, Norfolk Street and Park Avenue — accessible to people with disabilities, NJ Transit officials said in a press release. Those four stations are the only ones in the Newark network that are not compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
The study is one of 40 projects from 32 states and two territories selected to receive a total $16.2 million from the FTA’s Areas of Persistent Poverty Program, which aims to help reassess, design and improve transportation services in low-income communities.
"[We] will now leverage these funds as a first step in implementing a series of accessibility, service and customer experience improvements on our vital Newark light-rail system, which the many residents of our state’s largest city rely on as their primary travel option," said NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett.