New Jersey Bike Walk Coalition

Community leaders are also working to form a Vision Zero task force.

The purchase agreement for nine miles of an abandoned rail line that runs from Montclair to Jersey City for the creation of the new Essex Hudson Greenway has been extended five months, to June 30. 

New Jersey will purchase nine miles of an abandoned rail line that runs from Montclair to Jersey City to create the Essex-Hudson Greenway, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday. 

Proponents of a nine-mile Essex-Hudson Greenway from Montclair to Jersey City are trying to get a commitment from the state on funding by the end of July before time runs out, they say.

First suggested nearly 20 years ago, the Essex-Hudson Greenway Project is inching closer to reality, project officials say.

On June 19, Norfolk Southern filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency that oversees economic issues related to ground transportation, seeking to abandon the line and transfer ownership to the Open Space Institute, at a price of $65 million. 

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A long-discussed greenway project may be taking another step forward Tuesday night. Advocacy groups in the Montclair area have pushed to have a recreational trail built alongside the now out-of-service Boonton Line...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news “The earth is not flat; the earth is round,” said Jerry Vorbach, one of the presenters at the Acting Locally for a More Sustainable World Conference. “What?!” Gray Russell, the township sustainability officer, said in mock surprise as the audience laughed. Jokes about flat-ea...