Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-24
NEW RAILROAD STATIONS

Among the many Improvements contemplated by the rail
roads this year are several new railroad stations. Last year a
handsome new station was completed at Asbury Park. The Penn
sylvania railroad is to build a new station at Lancaster, Pa, this
gear, From Newark comes the report that the Pennsylvania ss-
tenn is also planning big developments in Newark, combining the
Market street station with the Park Place Hudson and Manhattan
tube station and making it the great transfer point instead of Man
haitian Transfer now located out in the meadows.
Down in Trenton there is a constant agitation for a new sta
ion. The Trenton Times publishes every day on its first page
IN advertisement which says, "Trenton's worst advertisement is
the Clinton Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Atlantic City is another point where improved station facili
les are sadly needed and the agitation there is constantly in favor
i a new and modern structure.
This is very interesting to Perth Amboy. The stations at all OF
he places here mentioned are palaces compared with the Central
station in this city. With the elimination of the grade crossings
through here, however, a new station is assured. But it has been i'm
possible thus far to get a real idea of what the station will look like.
4 would seem as if the city ought to have something to say about
he kind of a structure to be built. Once it is erected it will have to
/ 10 for a long time. 1t ought to be a station that will take care of the
,uture growth of the city as we'll as provide for present accommo-
iations.
Perth Amboy's new station ought to be a union station cree
ed on the triangle formed by New Brunswick avenue, the Central
abroad and the Lehigh Valley railroad. The railroad officials say
his is not feasible. We believe that it could be shown that t is
easible enough. On this site with a beautiful, broad plaza for an
.pproach on New Brunswick avenue, and with an approach from
Il Washington Stfeet, Fertn AnDoy coulu ave d stdtioh "ol'ny " d
\ prosperous and growing city.
tits to be regretted that there was not a city plan commission
It work in Perth Amboy several years ago so that this matter OF a
inion station could be taken up and a plan developed that would
4onform with the rest Of the city's development. The time is COM
ng when the Lehigh Valley will become an important commuters
,oad, bringing people from Metuchen, South Plainhed and out to-
yard Pennington, to this city to work. This is not as far away as
naav may think. In that event better accommodations will be re-
,ured of the Lehigh Valley, and the passengers should be brought
,earer to the center of the city than the present station on New
Brunswick avenue.
AS far as the Pennsylvania railroad is concerned, the old State
treet station is worse than the accommodations for a mining camp
n Montana. 1t is humiliating to have strangers come to this city
md alight at such a place. Sooner or later that State street branch
Fl viii be needed exclusively for freight and all the Pennsylvania
i passenger trains will probably pass through here to south Amboy
Il $ their terminal. This would bring all three railroads into the
j ,nion station at New Brunswick avenue and Washington street,
md a more central location could hardly be found.
The railroad station is the main approach to a city; it is there
gbere strangers get their first impression. When the new station
: built here it ought to be a credit to the city for years to come
Xii is up to Perth Amboy to see that the right kind of a structure is
sut up.
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