Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System

Project Details

TUTOR PERINI AFFILIATES

Tutor Perini Civil
Design-Build Contractor
Contract Amount: $344 Million

OWNER
New Jersey Transit

LOCATION
Bayonne to Hoboken, NJ

SIZE
9.5 Miles

COMPLETION
2002

Project Description

This rail line stretches along the congested Hudson River waterfront in close proximity to the Hudson River crossings that connect New Jersey and Manhattan.

The design-build joint venture was responsible for design and construction of all civil works on the Initial Operating System (IOS) that connected Bayonne (34th Street) with Jersey City (Exchange Place) including a spur line to West Side Avenue in Jersey City, and the MOS-2 Segment that extended service south to 22nd Street in Bayonne and north to the Hoboken Terminal, and entered revenue service in September 2002.

The IOS included 9.5 miles of track; 16 stations; a complete maintenance complex housing car washers, wheel truing machine, inspection facilities, car hoist equipment, and car cleaning facilities and incorporates four major intermodal (commuter trains, bus, ferry, PATH trains) transfer stations. Thousands of commuters pass through the four intermodal transfer stations each day. There are also four regional park-and-ride sites to provide a total of 3,150 parking spaces.

Construction also included a number of elevated bridge structures throughout the project which spanned roads, railroads, rivers and vacant land. The most significant structure was the Newport Viaduct—a 1,800-foot-long, multi-span structure carrying the light rail through the central business areas. This was a steel structure supported on eight-foot diameter caissons drilled to rock. Of particular importance was the construction of the Newport Viaduct’s foundations, which involved installation of 44 large, seven to nine feet in diameter, and more than 80-foot-deep drilled shafts (caissons) just west of the Hudson River. At one location, a nine-foot diameter shaft was drilled within a few feet of the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.