New Hours for South Orange

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MODERATOR'S NOTE: Edited title to make it more factual and concise.

nick11a wrote:MODERATOR'S NOTE: Edited title to make it more factual and concise.

Moderator takes word "homeless" out of title of a story about homeless people to make it more factual. Yea, that makes sense.
Original title: Attention homeless: new hours for South Orange station.

If the article is correct, it means that Transit has been deliberatly using South Orange station as a homeless shelter, keeping it open twenty-four hours a day; and due to complaints from train riders, is now going to reverse that to some extent, by closing it three hours nightly, from 2am to 5am.
This is all a complete surprise to me. My station, Middletown, NJ, is open 4:45am to 2:30pm, weekdays, and train riders are the only people in it. It's in a residential area, far from the heart of town, so there are no homeless people, drunks, drug dealers, etc. any where near it.
I worked Morristown for sixteen years, and we had all of the above people there, but we didn't cater to them, and I managed to keep the population down, with the help of the police. When I went home at night, I lockd the station.

I think getting the homeless into shelters instead of being unsupervised in the train station (which is only staffed with an agent during weekday mornings and afternoons) is the best thing for their safety, unless the town wants to put a police officer there. When I commuted via Summit awhile back, there were a couple of homeless people, but there was also frequent police presence there even overnight.

Ssouth Orange has one ticket agent, on duty from 6am to 2pm, Monday through Friday. Here's a link to his hours on the NJT website. Note that the new building hours in effect March 16 are shown in the advisory.
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Good photo. http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/ ... range.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;