No funds for train station as New Jersey transit hub builds up
North Brunswick, New Jersey
ALL the ingredients for a bustling downtown transit hub here are coming together: new town houses, restaurants and big-box stores sit just off the busiest rail corridor in the country, as trains whiz by every 10 minutes or so. Bulldozers, backhoes and scattered mounds of dirt offer evidence of more to come. A large banner over a nearby highway with an illustration of a train declares: "Shop. Dine. Ride. Live." There is just one piece missing from this rosy picture: any evidence of a train station.
On the longest stretch of passenger rails in New Jersey without a stop, the proposed station would address a glaring need, providing public transit to a bustling area and easing congestion on chronically gridlocked highways. An elevated rail track that is part of the project could funnel more commuter trains to New York City.
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