Union City, New Jersey - Transportation

Transportation

Hudson County Transportation Network

Intermodal hubs	Bergenline Station Exchange Place Hoboken Terminal Journal Square Newark Penn Station Port Authority Bus Terminal Weehawken Port Imperial World Trade Center

Train	Hoboken Terminal Hudson Bergen Light Rail Meadowlands Rail Line Port Authority Trans Hudson Secaucus Junction

Bus	A&C Bus Coach USA Dollar van GWB Plaza New Jersey Transit routes 1-89 New Jersey Transit routes to Manhattan, Bergen, and Passaic Nungessers Spanish Transportation

Ferry	Hoboken Terminal Liberty Water Taxi New York Waterway Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal Statue Cruises Weehawken Port Imperial

Airports	Essex County Linden John F. Kennedy LaGuardia Newark Liberty Teterboro

Vehicular bridges and tunnels	Bayonne Bridge Holland Tunnel Lincoln Highway Lincoln Tunnel Newark Bay Bridge New Jersey Route 3 Pulaski Skyway Wittpenn Bridge

Passenger seaports	Cape Liberty Cruise Port Brooklyn Cruise Terminal New York Passenger Ship Terminal

Major thoroughfares	Belleville Turnpike Boulevard East Jersey City-Newark Turnpike Kennedy Boulevard Paterson Plank Road River Road Schuyler Avenue Tonnele Avenue 14th Street Viaduct

Highways	Interstate 78 Interstate 95 New Jersey Turnpike Pulaski Skyway U.S. Route 1/9 Truck Route 3 Route 139 Route 440 Route 495

Proposed	Gateway Project Northern Branch Corridor Project Journal Square-Bayonne BRT

Union City is 2 miles (3.2 km) from New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel, its main approach road, Route 495 bisecting it. Within a mile to the west are U.S. Route 1/9, Route 3, and the New Jersey Turnpike.

The Bergenline Avenue Station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail is located at 49th Street near the city line with West New York and North Bergen.

Bergenline Avenue and the marginal highway of New Jersey Route 495 are major public transportation corridors. New Jersey Transit bus service transportation is available to points in Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic counties and to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. Routes which stop in the city are the 111, 121, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129, 154, 156, 159, 144, 190 (and the 108, 160, 161, 163, 167, 191, 192 by passenger request for travel to the Port Authority Bus terminal only), and the 195 (Saturdays only). The George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal is served by the 181. Jersey City can be reached on the 22, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88 and 89 routes. Additional public transportation service is augmented by dollar vans to the Hudson County Courthouse, Newport Mall, 42nd Street in Manhattan, and Paterson, New Jersey, The minibuses, locally known for their Spanish language name guagua, have come subject to greater scrutiny due to alleged safety issues.

Newark Liberty International Airport is located 12.5 miles (20.1 km) away in Newark / Elizabeth. LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens is 12.3 miles (19.8 km) away. John F. Kennedy Airport is also in Queens, New York. The Colombian airline Avianca operates a private bus service from to Union City and Elizabeth for passengers on Avianca flights departing from and arriving to JFK.

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