NJT Issues Meadowlands ‘Innovation Challenge’ RFP Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief New Jersey Transit on Feb. 18 issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its “Innovation Challenge” to develop “an inventive and original solution” to increase transit capacity between the Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station at Secaucus Junction and the Meadowlands Sports and Entertainment Complex. NJT said it is asking qualified contractors “to help solve a very real problem: how to move a stadium’s worth of people seamlessly and continuously between Secaucus Junction and the Meadowlands Sports and Entertainment Complex, anchored by MetLife Stadium, the Racetrack and American Dream, seven miles away.” The Meadowlands, the agency said, “provides unique challenges to mass transit” that involve moving people to sporting events, concerts and other venues to a complex with “sensitive environmental features” and an existing rail line from Secaucus Junction. NJT is seeking proposals “that can provide end-to-end solutions for peak capacity service, including design, build, operation and management as well as identifying the financial resources to make a proposal a reality.”