Garfield Station - On the endangered list?

The new NJT schedules for NJT now have several trains skipping Garfield station during both peak and off-peak hours. Plauderville is now the main station in the area with it's new high level platform. Does anyone think this is the first step toward Garfield getting "Great Notch'ed"?

If NJT really wants to kill Garfield they should give Plauderville full service akin to any other (non-Garfield) Bergen County Line station. There is no good reason for no evening/night inbound trains to stop at Plauderville.

I can't see Garfield Station going entirely. Sure Wesmont's construction and Plauderville's reconstruction have jeopardized the deteriorating station. However, Garfield Station is still closest to downtown. Plauderville is still technically the defacto station for Saddle Brook, along with Garfield, which tends to help Plauderville Station. However, if you want to commute to downtown Garfield, Garfield Station is always the better pick.

Also, reading the 11/06 schedule, Garfield has a lot of trains stops still. If it were really being "Great Notched", I doubt Garfield would have more than 10 trains daily.

With a proposed new station next to the Curtis Wright facility just around the curves from Garfield, its future is indeed troubled.

SecaucusJunction wrote:Does anyone think this is the first step toward Garfield getting "Great Notch'ed"?

I do.

I'm not sure that people would let a downtown train station evaporate but I suppose stranger things have happened.

Flag stop possibility?

25Hz wrote:Flag stop possibility?

i dont think NJT do flag stops

RWERN wrote:I'm not sure that people would let a downtown train station evaporate but I suppose stranger things have happened.

No parking and hardly any ridership outside of rush hour. The station is a dump. It wont be missed by many.

25Hz wrote:Flag stop possibility?

No.

Looks like the process of "Great-notchin' " this station stop is well under-way as the new Plauderville emerges as the prominent station in the city. NJ Transit eliminated two evening and three morning rush-hour trains from Garfield. And almost all of these were "key" trains by all means.

IMO, it would be ridiculous to close the downtown station.