The tour started at the West Side Station, which has an 800-car parking lot but which only sees about 200 cars per day. Neal Fitzsimmons, director of light rail service planning at New Jersey Transit, says it was better to build the lot over all the land they had, rather than have a smaller lot overlooking a vacant parcel.
The Liberty State Park station, across from the just-reopened Liberty Science Center, is one of the most popular stations. Its 1,400-car lot is always full, since it's just off of Exit 14C of the Turnpike.
The Light Rail has four stops along Jersey City's Gold Coast, which has been shooting up since well before the Light Rail came through. PATH terminals and ferries can get commuters over to Manhattan, if their final destination isn't one of the Gold Coast's office towers. Frequent requests are made to construct a Light Rail stop by the Target, Fitzsimmons says.
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