Mess transit:
New Jersey town builds commuter station for $450 million – without a parking lot for commuters.
A parking facility, the agency claims, would simply draw more cars to an area already clogged with traffic. Then why did the New Jersey Turnpike Authority spend millions on a long exit ramp connecting the station to the turnpike? The reason, obviously, was to make it easy to reach the station … by car. It is not clear whether the turnpike people ever talked to the transit people, but in any case, the station is now vastly underused.