NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A new NJ Transit station will be built on the Northeast Corridor at North Brunswick thanks to an agreement between the transit agency and Middlesex County, N.J.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced the agreement on Wednesday, which will see the Middlesex County Improvement Authority oversee design and construction of the station at the existing North Brunswick Transit Village, an existing shopping, dining, and residential development. Patch.com reports the station will be funded with $50 million from the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund.
The station will fill the longest gap between current stops in NJ Transit’s Northeast Corridor line, 15 miles between the Jersey Avenue station in New Brunswick and Princeton Junction in West Windsor.
It will be some time before the station begins receiving passengers, however. The design and engineering process is expected to be completed in the next two years.
There used to be two stations between Jersey Avenue and Princeton Junction. The Monmouth Junction Station which was just a small shed on the north bound side with pedestrian overpass or tunnel to get there, and Adams Station which is about a mile or so north of the planned North Brunswick station. It was on Adams Road and had a way to cross over the tracks. Both stations closed by the time Amtrak took over responsibility for the trackage. Monmouth Junction was one of my favorite places on the mainline to photograph freight trains in the 70’s as southbound trains usually crossed over from 2 track over to 3 track.
Mr Reid, reread the article. That’s not the longest distance in the entire US, it’s the longest gap between stations on NJ Transit’s Northeast Corridor route between Trenton, NJ and New York Penn Station. Adding another station would relieve the strain on the Jersey Ave and downtown New Brunswick stations, where parking is at a major premium, and hopefully divert some traffic off of US Route 1.
Have any of you ever designed a building? It doesn’t happen overnight. And building a building along a working 120mph rail line presents extra problems.
It takes 6-9 months to build a standard suburban house. Why do you think it would take less time to build a station in a complex environment?
15 miles? Holy Cow, Is that the largest gap between stations in a U.S. Commuter RR? Im sure I can google that but Im here to interact, Im sure “The old Guard” here can tell me.
Mr Shigley. Yes two years. 1st. Make sure your not going to cause the extinction of that butterfly with purple polka dotted wings. Study the bats. 2. Decide if you want an award winning design. 3. Decide if your award winning design can be built without the cost overruns embarrassing the local politicians. 4. This being NJ, decide who’s back is getting scratched and how much. 5. Drink some coffee. 6. React to the Star-Ledger article describing why four politicians are going to jail because of the project. 7. Award the construction contract to a builder. 8. Explain in court why your environmental impact report forgot to Talk about how this station is impacting the local Grizzly Bear population(yes the local NJ Grizzly Bear population). 9 Let’s see where was I? 10 drink some tea(I don’t drink coffee). 11. Um what were we building. 12. Retired the dementia afflicted bureaucrats who are now ready for retirement. 13. . .. … ….)
Two years just to design the station????????????????
There used to be a stop in Monmouth Jct, about 6 miles north of PJ. I’m not sure when it fell out of use. Maybe the early 1970s.