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Ridgewood NJ, a review of past Village Council meeting minutes reveals that Ridgewood officials may apply for an NJDOT Transportation Fund Grant of between $125-$150,000 to install a replacement bus shelter at Van Neste Square.
An offer from NJ Transit for a FREE replacement(s) was apparently rejected. Whatever NJ Transit offered didn’t meet RIdgewood’s standards? New flower pots in the CBD are next on the wish list.
Only in Ridgewood.
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Reckless spending. It is a bus stop, not a terminal. The free ones from NJ Transit are all that is needed. This is the last thing the village should be buying right now given the major bill forthcoming for hazardous soil removal.
A completely absurd waste of money.
Siobhan strikes again!
Just amazing who’s coming up with this kind of thinking. Where are they getting this money from, another bond. Ridiculous, let New Jersey transit pay for a new building. Why would village ever invest 150,000 into a building, that we have to maintain and not getting anything out of it. We have the property, now let New Jersey transit pay for a building and put it up. They are the ones that are gaining here, not the village. Especially New Jersey transit is saying that that is a major hub. Smells like dirty politics to me.💩
It’s a bus station not an art installation. Take the free one from nj transit and spend our money on something necessary
The bus station seems a bit more important than the giant pavilion at habernickle. Why spend over a quarter million dollars on that. It looks ridiculous and will be over used by a private business for the owners personal gain
Favors????
Need a village DOGE.
Does this price tag include n bathrooms ?
Heck that is almost half of the price that the village spent on their friend over at Habernicke;. $350k without the bathroom. We have no money, but yet we keep spending on nonsense. Almost 400k on a lightening shelter with a toilet. I would prioritize a downtown bus depot with a restroom over a private business running 24/7 operations in a park. What’s next, Paul?
People making these decisions are STUPID.
A visitor to the village needs to identify the bus stop / the bus shelter. Standard NJ Transit ones make it EASY to identify them.
Once you make them fancy, they will not be able to easily identify it.
Who’s going to pay for the toilet paper.
They don’t care… they know we are
RICH and STUPID
150K should get you 2000 square feet – some flat screens and nice seating area. I would never ride a bus but would be happy to cut a check if the numbskulls that run the town could pull that off under budget.
If RW leadership wants to keep the health and wellness programs it got DOGED on then they should put $150k towards that and take the free bus stops.