This is not Red Bank NJT Station, but Aberdeen-Matawan, where the red cross of death has recently appeared on the station house. It appears that being listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places doesn’t necessarily mean much. There is some talk of moving and restoring it, but NJT hasn’t shown the least interest.
A-M, like RB, used to be a junction station with lines south toward Freehold and north serving the Bay Shore.
Ominously, just like RB, A-M has been designated “Transit Village” status by NJT.
Meanwhile, here in Red Bank the council, at the behest of NJT and Denholtz Properties, has designated much of the area around the station as “an Area in Need of Noncondemnation Redevelopment (#NP23-140)“, which to anyone who understands the machinations of this council raises a red flag as to the future of the area given its dedication to build, baby, build, inappropriate, non-sustainable and expensive developments in the town literally at the expense of the community.
I’ve raised the possible downgrading of the nature of the station before. The loss of freight traffic down the old CNJ route to Farmingdale, possible reinstatement of the RoW to AC and Philadelphia, and traffic management issues as stopping trains block two major grade crossings while passengers exchange, and it’s common knowledge that NJT has effectively red-crossed the whole Red Bank station campus.
Meanwhile, the council obfuscates over the reinstatement of the Historical Preservation Commission, large-scale development of adjacent properties is put on hold until the area’s future is resolved, speculative vultures circle and zoning and planning boards are packed with Ready! acolytes, while the regime’s social media assets either remain dumb or call anyone who dares to question the current dogma nimbys and boomers…
Suddenly, it’s starting to look like a “plan“…
Our community is being hoodwinked by a selfie-obsessed caucus of clowns and their ringmasters.
