Kind of related to capacity, there are some stations that need help--especially with ADA access. Speculating here, but is the reason that Millburn and Short Hills have not had any ADA work done to them the result of plans for a future expansion project? You wouldn't want to add hi-level platforms at the platform ends, only to tear them out 10 years later to accommodate a third track. Both stations see decent ridership, and you would expect that at least one would have a hi-level ADA option like South Orange or Madison. Your closest options for easy ADA access if you live in Maplewood, Millburn or Short Hills are South Orange or Summit, IIRC. It seems like Millburn would be the logical station if you're going to pick one station to place ADA in, splitting the difference in travel by car/taxi/etc. But they're only repairing the platform edges in Millburn, since they're crumbling apart. And so far, only on the EB side. Not on the side that a third track would extend through. Hmmm.
time wrote:Kind of related to capacity, there are some stations that need help--especially with ADA access. Speculating here, but is the reason that Millburn and Short Hills have not had any ADA work done to them the result of plans for a future expansion project? You wouldn't want to add hi-level platforms at the platform ends, only to tear them out 10 years later to accommodate a third track. Both stations see decent ridership, and you would expect that at least one would have a hi-level ADA option like South Orange or Madison. Your closest options for easy ADA access if you live in Maplewood, Millburn or Short Hills are South Orange or Summit, IIRC. It seems like Millburn would be the logical station if you're going to pick one station to place ADA in, splitting the difference in travel by car/taxi/etc. But they're only repairing the platform edges in Millburn, since they're crumbling apart. And so far, only on the EB side. Not on the side that a third track would extend through. Hmmm.The laws with ADA compliancy (which I am not versed on) do have some weird grandfathering impacts. For instance, I believe they don't need to add any ADA things until there is major work done on a platform updating it. So, a platform/station could go on for years without having one until it was needed to be done.
However, there are stations that haven't followed this. North Branch only got a proper platform 9 years ago (prior to that, it had a pile of stones acting as a platform) and while ADA laws were in effect, the platform installed is not ADA compliant (low level only.) So, I don't know!