Save a Historic Railway for Our City’s Public Use! Do Not Tear Down for Private Gain!

The Issue

We need your help!

Currently a federal agency is determining the future of a 150-year-old rail corridor, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Harsimus Branch, and its historic massive stone Embankment on 6th Street, Jersey City. 

Please help us keep the stunning Embankment and the longer corridor for multiple 21st-century public uses. We need them for the East Coast Greenway, a Maine-to-Florida trail.  We need them for open space for a burgeoning population.  We need them for rail in New Jersey’s soon-to-be largest city. 

The unthinkable alternative is demolition and replacement with luxury housing, character-destroying intrusions into our beloved historic Downtown. This prospect is possible only because the property was prematurely sold for development before required federal permission was requested and obtained.

Help us right this wrong and preserve these historic assets.  The City of Jersey City is poised to preserve them, if only the Surface Transportation Board (STB) carries out its preservation obligations!  Please join us in our comment, which we will deliver to the STB.

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Embankment Preservation CoalitionPetition StarterThe EPC is working with the City of Jersey City and others to preserve the structure and its longer right of way for a habitat-oriented linear park, part of the East Coast Greenway Maine-to-Florida trail, and for potential rail use.
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This petition made change with 2,553 supporters!

The Issue

We need your help!

Currently a federal agency is determining the future of a 150-year-old rail corridor, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Harsimus Branch, and its historic massive stone Embankment on 6th Street, Jersey City. 

Please help us keep the stunning Embankment and the longer corridor for multiple 21st-century public uses. We need them for the East Coast Greenway, a Maine-to-Florida trail.  We need them for open space for a burgeoning population.  We need them for rail in New Jersey’s soon-to-be largest city. 

The unthinkable alternative is demolition and replacement with luxury housing, character-destroying intrusions into our beloved historic Downtown. This prospect is possible only because the property was prematurely sold for development before required federal permission was requested and obtained.

Help us right this wrong and preserve these historic assets.  The City of Jersey City is poised to preserve them, if only the Surface Transportation Board (STB) carries out its preservation obligations!  Please join us in our comment, which we will deliver to the STB.

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Embankment Preservation CoalitionPetition StarterThe EPC is working with the City of Jersey City and others to preserve the structure and its longer right of way for a habitat-oriented linear park, part of the East Coast Greenway Maine-to-Florida trail, and for potential rail use.
Media inquiries

Victory

This petition made change with 2,553 supporters!

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The Decision Makers

Victoria Rutson
Victoria Rutson
STB Federal Preservation Officer
Secretary
Secretary
Embankment Preservation Coaltion
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Petition created on August 21, 2016