Train Station Pedestrian Tunnel Closed from October 7 to End of October
Beginning on or about Monday, October 7 and continuing through the end of October 2013, the pedestrian tunnel at Ridgewood Station will be closed from all five points of entry (stairs and ramps) due to rehabilitation of the tunnel walls.
During this time, customers may use the stairs or elevators serving the Franklin Avenue underpass for access to and from Garber Square, Wilsey Square, North Broad Street and the center platform serving tracks 3 and 1.
Customers should allow for additional time during this time.
We regret any inconvenience and thank you for your patience
The council didn’t care about the broken walls, faded mural, and urine smell until an outside company came along offering to fix things up if they could put ads there. It’s going to be hard to walk along the tracks with my eyes closed but at least underground I won’t hit the third rail. THIS IS WRONG, COUNCIL.
WE ARE BEING SOLD. Times are tight? Right–the council literally throws away millions each year. So does the BOE. It’s just pathetic.
Now that the train from NY arrives in the middle, everyone will have to take the elevator to the Franklin Ave. underpass and walk a million miles east or west for the duration of this dreadful project that will bring ads to the entire train station. At least they’re doing it during relatively mild weather, but it’s going to be an extreme inconvenience. The way to pick up anyone arriving from NY will probably be to park on N. Broad as close as possible to Franklin Ave.–it will be a very long walk from the exit to the parking lot by the train station.
And oh yes–the elevator was the great solution for handicapped access. Anybody in a wheelchair arriving on the middle track (or leaving from there) HAS to take that circuitous route all the time–this after millions were spent purportedly to make the place accessible. For shame.
Problems with the train station in no particular order:
*Ramp at the south end of the platform leads to stairs into the tunnel. Wtf?
*Passengers who want to go to Broad are forced to the underpass and to a dangerous corner
*Passengers who take the stairs from Franklin to the Hoboken bound platform have to go all the way to the end of the ramp then double back (I have missed trains I wouldn’t have missed if there were just another set of stairs by the elevator)
*the most of the platform is north of Franklin, and very far north of the pedestrian underpass.
*The canopy on the Hoboken bound platform does fuck all to keep anyone dry in even a mild rain
God forbid anyone should have to walk any distance, are you just plain lazy?
It is a block. 1 block. If that is a “very long walk” there are other issues. Good for you if this is one of the major hardships in your life!
For people who are handicapped this changes nothing so we are talking about people who normally walk on the platform to the tunnel and now have to walk on the street.
This construction to fix the tunnel requires going down the stairs on the north part of the platform which really doesnt change the walk. You just walk 1 block up Broad to get back to Ridgewood Ave or cross under the trestle and walk 1 block back to W ridgewood Ave.
You lazy bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most of you, from what I’ve seen in Ridgewood, can use the extra walking!!!!
the problem is when it’s all done.we have people peeing and shit’ing on the wall’s.
It is more than one block and it leads to two flights of stairs at the Ridgewood Ave exit. The elevator puts someone in a wheelchair at the bottom of the underpass with a at least 200 feet to go (uphill in either direction) to get to anywhere that they can be picked up or cross the street. And the street they would have to cross is Broad and Franklin, which is a mess. It has no walk signal and no natural break in traffic for someone to cross. It is hard enough to see a person at standing height waiting to cross, let alone a person in a wheelchair. The project was $40 million for NOTHING. It does not serve the handicapped and it just endangers the people that are using the train. And don’t even get me started on the free shuttle to Woodcliff Lake that leaves from the train station. 50K per month to shuttle six people back and forth. We could buy them each a car.