NJ TRANSIT cuts ribbon at new parking lot at Edison Station

Senator Robert Menendez and Congressman Frank Pallone joined NJTRANSIT Executive Director Richard Sarles and other officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new 477-space parking lot that more than doubles parking capacity at Edison Station on the Northeast Corridor rail line. The lot opens to customers January 1.

The event marked the
first of NJ TRANSIT’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects reaching
completion, and was finished within budget and ahead of schedule. Petillo Inc.
of Flanders, N.J., was awarded a $4.7-million construction contract in April.

The new lot, located off
Kilmer Road near the outbound platform, offers 120 daily spaces and 357 permit
parking spaces. A walkway connects the lot to Plainfield Avenue, from which
customers can access the Edison Station building and the inbound and outbound
platforms.

With the opening of the
new lot, commuters will have access to 816 parking spaces, including 339 in the
reconfigured existing lots between Central Avenue and the inbound boarding
platform. The lot closest to the station building was repaved as part of the
project, and a small outdoor plaza with tables and benches was installed just
south of the station building.

The inbound lots
primarily will be for permit-holders, although any spaces in the lot adjacent
to the station building that remain unoccupied after 10 a.m. will be made
available to daily parking customers.

Park America, which
operates the existing lots on the inbound side, will operate the new lot as
well.

Edison Station is the 11^th
busiest of the 165 stations and terminals served by NJ TRANSIT, serving
approximately 6,500 customers each weekday with direct service to Newark,
Secaucus Junction and Penn Station New York, among other destinations.