Project/Program Name: Wesmont Station
Description: Public-Private Parternership for new station to support existing residential and new transit-oriented development.
Scope: Station, parking lot, passenger amenities, transmission line relocation, track relocation, community outreach, relocation of railroad maintenance of way equipment storage
Project Owner: NJ TRANSIT
Stakeholder Agencies/Departments/Suppliers: Private Developer, NJ TRANSIT Rail Operations, NJ TRANSIT Information Systems, NJ TRANSIT Real Estate, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), Borough of Wood-Ridge, Federal Transit Administration, NJ Division of Community Affairs, NJ State Historic Preservation Office, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Edwards & Kelcey
Involvement: project development, community outreach, design requirements, environmetal impact assessment, manage design firm selection process, review design submittals, facilitate design negotiations between design consultant and private developer (as NJ TRANSIT employee)
Notable Challenges: politically driven project, physically constrained location, environmental remediation, impact on adjacent residential neighborhood, design consultant contracted and managed by private developer, complexity of public-private partnership agreement, negotiations and coordination for relocating storage for adjacent railroad maintenance facility, excessive train-to-platform gap for original concept of station on an adjacent curve
Description: Public-Private Parternership for new station to support existing residential and new transit-oriented development.
Scope: Station, parking lot, passenger amenities, transmission line relocation, track relocation, community outreach, relocation of railroad maintenance of way equipment storage
Project Owner: NJ TRANSIT
Stakeholder Agencies/Departments/Suppliers: Private Developer, NJ TRANSIT Rail Operations, NJ TRANSIT Information Systems, NJ TRANSIT Real Estate, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), Borough of Wood-Ridge, Federal Transit Administration, NJ Division of Community Affairs, NJ State Historic Preservation Office, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Edwards & Kelcey
Involvement: project development, community outreach, design requirements, environmetal impact assessment, manage design firm selection process, review design submittals, facilitate design negotiations between design consultant and private developer (as NJ TRANSIT employee)
Notable Challenges: politically driven project, physically constrained location, environmental remediation, impact on adjacent residential neighborhood, design consultant contracted and managed by private developer, complexity of public-private partnership agreement, negotiations and coordination for relocating storage for adjacent railroad maintenance facility, excessive train-to-platform gap for original concept of station on an adjacent curve
Results Achieved: Successfully negotiated to eliminate train-to-platform gap by relocating station from curve to tangent track. Station is now operational.
Period of Involvement: 2010-2011 (reassigned prior to construction to support bus technology project)