Talk:Trenton Transit Center

message: ===2005===
There was no RM to move the page to its current location, Trenton Rail Station is the official name of the station, and is used in literature by its owner New Jersey Transit as such. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:55, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the move, but may I further suggest that the disambiguator "(New Jersey)" be removed?  No google results for "Trenton Transit Center" refer to anything other than this station.  —CComMack (t–c) 15:27, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

text: While I agree with the removal of the disambiguator I am not as versed as I should be.  I also would suggest that this article requires more clean up. 72.78.25.48 (talk) 07:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name discussion

message: There was no RM to move the page to its current location, Trenton Rail Station is the official name of the station, and is used in literature by its owner New Jersey Transit as such. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:55, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005

message: Moving this page
The Trenton Rail Station has been offically renamed to the Trenton Transit Center.  This is apparent on all documentation from Amtrak, Septa, and NJ State departments. move request (talk) Hoovie 00:19, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the move, but may I further suggest that the disambiguator "(New Jersey)" be removed?  No google results for "Trenton Transit Center" refer to anything other than this station.  —CComMack (t–c) 15:27, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

text: While I agree with the removal of the disambiguator I am not as versed as I should be.  I also would suggest that this article requires more clean up. 72.78.25.48 (talk) 07:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008

message: I've removed this line from the article:
:" Amtrak's Acela Express service to Trenton has been silently discontinued following the April 15, 2005 service outage and subsequent return-to-service."
There is still limited Acela service stopping at Trenton (one train, 2103, arrives at 6:47am Monday-Thursday). —LrdChaos 14:29, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Amtrak Acela service

message: 4-21-2008.  I went to the station at lunch today.  The front doors and waiting room are now open and, although there is a lot of work to be done, an initial impression is possible.  
     Passengers enter by going up 4 steps that face Wallenberg Bouldvard.  Off to the right there is a ramp.  The front doors are heavy but will open automatically if you push a button.  The waiting room is large and bright with ticket windows along the back on the right and a not yet operationational customer service office on the right.  Above the concourse entrance is a covered space that seems to be intended for train announcements.  Smaller screens giving the same information are scattered around.  The sense of space is emphasized by the almost complete lack of places for waiting passengers to sit.  There are two wide benches on either side of the front doors.  You have to look for them because, without any back rest, the gray steel benches are quite low to the ground.  As you enter the concourse restrooms are on the left.  My impression of the men's room is that it is a little small for a station which, according to New Jersey Transit, serves 5500 people a day.  The concourse has not been renovated.  However the ticket windows have been moved to the new waiting room and the temporary side entrance is closed so there is much more room as you walk to your track.  The old Cafe Express coffee stand is closed and replaced by one in the waiting room run by Dunkin Donuts.  If you like being handed a container of cream cheese and told to help yourself to a stale bagel you will like the new Dunkin Donuts.  The old concourse area still has its old fashioned benches to wait on, benches with backs, and they were full while the newer steel benches were almost empty.  There was one person on a new bench, a woman who spread out her newspaper as far a possible, a convenience the older benches with back rests do not afford.  
     On the whole the new, light airy space and the lack of seating seems to invite strolling as you wait for your train.  Athletic commuters who don't care to sit have an opportunity to take a turn or two around the waiting room until their train arrives.  
19:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trenton's New Rail Station 

message: 11/17/2009  After years it seems the Trenton Transit Center is almost complete.  The station has a large lobby on the Raoul Wallenberg side which is where the ticket windows and the customer service office are.  There are backless metal benches to sit on in this lobby.  There is also a Dunkin Doughnuts stand here.
A second, smaller lobby is on the Walnut Street (East end) of the station.  A fast food (pizza and similar things) restaurant is at this end with tables and chairs to sit and eat.  No tickets are available but there are ticket machines.  
A long corridor over the tracks connects the lobbies.  It is not yet complete but the waiting benches have backs.  There are elevators to the tracks which are helpful if you have luggage as the moving stairs run up only.  
A welcome addition is an electronic departure board for buses that pass by the Transit Center.  
Outside of the Transit Center are generous bus shelters with metal benches which are comfortable enough but in winter will be very cold.  However Bus Stop D across Wallenberg Boulevard from the station still has no shelter at all.  The East bound Clinton Avenue bus shelter still requires 2 street crossings adding unnecessary danger for the bus transfer.  
The Riverline Station is immediately across Clinton Avenue from the station.  
"Transit Center" is actually an incorrect name.  Three bus lines, the 602, 603/613 and 607 do not pass the station; to transfer to those buses it is necessary to either walk or take a bus to State and Broad Streets or State and Warren Streets.  
The Transit Center offers much more amenity to train travelers than the old one did and the bus stops adjoining the center are a great improvement.  However for people going in the wrong direction (down town from Bus Stop D or out to Hamilton from the Clinton Avenue Shelter they are inadequate and even dangerous.  Bus riders continue to be treated as second class citizens.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ishmael Dott (talk • contribs) 02:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trenton Transit Center Nearing Completion 

message: Does this station still have three separate ticket offices: for Amtrak, NJT and SEPTA?--agr (talk) 21:26, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three ticket offices? 

message: This article needs a full history section dating back to it's origins in 1863. It should also include the major overhaul it went through just four years ago. --DanTD 03:19, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: Here's some info in a pic taken by Jeremiah Cox, a.k.a.; "The Subway Nut" (http://subwaynut.com/riverline/trentonr/trentonr7.jpg). ---------User:DanTD (talk)  18:32, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section