I am curious why this plan was not considered less than eight years ago when the train station parking lot was last altered. Did Chris R not think it was a good idea then, was it never considered? Parking was surely an issue 10 years ago. Why are we considering renovations to a parking lot that was so recently modified – are we admitting that it wasn’t done very well, or at least did not maximize parking back then? Perhaps this was considered and determined to be a bad idea.
Would like to see the town engineers at the parking lot at 7am and again between 6 and 7pm when the traffic is at it’s highest. Adding more cars will only serve to create more gridlock at the traffic light on Ridgewood Ave. If more cars are added maybe something could be done to the traffic light to allow the cars to get out of the parking lot when trains arrive.
I don’t understand why we don’t put an underground parking garage at the train station for commuters to use. Or just build a garage there for whatever will fit on that space. That will open up spaces for shoppers and employees to use in the other lots.
8:14, aesthetic concerns at the train station caused NJT to agree to adjust the building plan for the now completed four foot high raised platform about 200 feet further north than originally planned. It was felt that a platform constructed in accordance with the original plan would have produced interrupted sightlines and thus been an eyesore, exacerbating the logistical east-west split in the village that is real and undeniable, not only due to the presence of the train line that was built, what, 150 years ago? but also due to the re-routing of vehicular traffic to and from East Ridgewood Avenue along Broad Street and along and through the Franklin Turnpike train track underpass which was established much later but is now taken for granted by Village residents. Godwin Avenue, instead of forming that abrupt and sometimes hazardous left hand turn toward its terminating intersection with West Ridgewood Avenue, previously extended straight across the train tracks directly to the point where East Ridgewood Avenue and Broad Street intersect. You can still see the remnants of that long-gone stretch of Godwin Avenue in the direction in which the front margins of the buildings are aligned near where the Christmas tree is annually erected.
Reserving spaces for “compact cars” and changing angled parking to perpendicular are among the worst aspects of the design, which must be scrapped.
814, they’ll never build a garage/deck at the station. The wizards of smart forced the platform hundreds of feet north as not to disrupt the ‘view’ across the square. Underground parking is too expensive and will yield too few spots.
It’s a major Fubar ..called out here by the Blog..VC FLOUNDERING..let’s check the water at this point..patterns here…
this town is a mess, waste money on shit. just repave all parking lot’s first. then move on to half of the roads in the c b d. the village is sinking.
2:18 is correct.winter early darkness adds to this hazardous evening exit
which is chaos.