(rshsdepot) Mount Arlington, NJ

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From today's Daily Record.
 
 
 
Bernie Wagenblast
Transportation Communications Newsletter
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/_ 
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Trains coming to Mount Arlington  
MOUNT ARLINGTON -- NJ Transit has given the go-ahead  for construction of a 
Mount Arlington train station off Howard Boulevard.  
"It's a great thing for Mount Arlington," Mayor Art Ondish said this morning. 
  
The station will be served by trains on the Montclair-Boonton line and the  
Morristown line, enabling customers to travel to Hoboken where transfers are  
available to PATH trains or Hudson River ferries. Customers will also be able 
to  travel to midtown Manhattan by transferring to Midtown Direct trains in 
Dover or  at Montclair State University station.  
The new train station will feature a heated waiting shelter on the inbound  
platform, two-high-level platforms, a pedestrian underpass and public address  
and passenger communications system, NJ Transit said in a release.  
The project will also reconfigure and expand by 57 spaces an existing parking 
 lot that is currently a carpool and bus park and ride. The lot, which is 
located  at the Howard Boulevard interchange of Route 80, will have a total of 
285 spaces  when completed, according to NJ Transit.  
Construction is scheduled to begin this summer and be completed by the end of 
 2007.  
Ondish said borough officials had expressed some concern that there might not 
 be enough parking, even with the additional spaces.  
"I personally don't think so, but we won't know until they build it," Ondish  
said.  
Alternate arrangements are in place to shuttle commuters to and from a  
publicly-owned parking lot nearby if traffic volume is too high and  consideration 
has been given to the construction of a parking deck should that  be necessary 
in the future, Ondish said.

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