West Haven Train Station

These days, practicality wins out over style. Too bad.

This station will be a benefit for those who live in places like Orange, and other towns that are due north of West Haven.

RearOfSignal wrote:True, I guess I'm biased toward the older styled stations, with and actual building for a ticket office and brick work etc. Stations like Hartsdale and Scarsdale with their artwork, Yonkers and Poughkeepsie with their impressive station buildings as well I enjoy. It just seems to me that most of the New Haven Line stations have the same feel.

I guess I like my stations with modern amenities but a retro feel.

As would I... But remember those stations were built with private capital a hundred years ago or more. I think CDOT is taking the right tack by building an austere facility to start with, and gradually adding facilities and stylistic touches as needed. Would we rather have CDOT lambasted in the press for an extravagant station that is over budget and riddled with construction delays, or a more austere design that is functional, on budget, and opens on time (or ahead of schedule)? Let's see how the business develops.

I think in the future, the only way you're going to see stations with any bit of style or character is if the railroad and CDOT develop public-private partnerships for retail and commercial development at station sites. But I fear I'm taking this thread off course...

Yes, I'd love an old-looking station with a nice waiting room. Doesn't seem to be part of the plans for the moment, though.

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it does look nice. i wonder who is gonna manage the parking there.


the classiest station is good old ansonia

kitn1mcc wrote:it does look nice. i wonder who is gonna manage the parking there.


the classiest station is good old ansonia

Stick it in Waterbury's parking lot and you've got yourself a humdinger.

kitn1mcc wrote:it does look nice. i wonder who is gonna manage the parking there.


the classiest station is good old ansonia

Westport is pretty nice, too.

Rumor has it the station may open in June. Can anyone confirm this?

The word that I got is this June. It is being delayed by signal system installation & improvements made on the newly redesignated track 3 from CP 271 to CP 266.

Update: West Haven Voice

Committee takes RR station tour

...The tour was arranged by Harp to give the committee members a first-hand look at the progress of the station, and the state-of-the-art construction. It took place on Jan. 15.

“The building is much more than I expected,” said Michael Mercuriano, chairman of the WHTSC, and the man who spearheaded the grassroots effort to get the station in the city. “It is an open area inside illuminated by plenty of passive light coming through the windows.”

The idea of having a train station in the city has been kicked around for decades. At one time the Town of West Haven had a stop between Campbell and Washington Avenues on what is now Bishop’s Place. It was closed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad sometime after World War I. The building, however, was not demolished until the late 1960s.

Various sites had been proposed for a new station with the hopes of decreasing congestion in both New Haven’s Union Station and the Milford stop. Studies were done in the 1980s and 1990s, but the idea never got off the drawing board.

...After the DOT had made a decision to bypass the city in favor of a station in Orange, a petition drive was mounted that collected tens of thousands of signatures asking the station decision be reconsidered.

The drive irked some state officials and city politicians, but was a force to be dealt with when it was determined that much of the traffic that would use the station would, in fact, come from West Haven.

Coupled with the fact there seemed to be a genuine desire to have the station placed here put officials in the position of reversing course. The entire issue was revisited with a new ressult...

It's such a long distance between Milford and New Haven; this station makes sense. I just can't believe it took this long.

Remember, the more station stops, the longer the trip. I used to love making that non stop 9 mile run from Milford to New Haven.

A notice for the upcoming fare hearing alludes to a June 1st opening:

http://www.mta.info/mta/news/hearings/

Public Hearing: Proposed Fares for West Haven Station
MTA Metro-North Railroad will hold a public hearing on a proposal to establish fares for travel to and from the new West Haven station in the Town of West Haven, Connecticut, in conjunction with the opening of the new station on or about June 1, 2013.

The proposed fares for the new West Haven station will be the same as the fares charged at the existing New Haven Station in effect on the date of the opening of the station. Click here for the proposed West Haven Station fares.
Time and Place of Hearing:
Monday, March 4, 2013

Starting at 5 PM (Registration begins at 4:30 PM)

Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Board Room, 5th Floor
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017 (Between 44th and 45th Streets)

so if its the same price as new haven how much will it cost to go from new haven to west haven

kitn1mcc wrote:so if its the same price as new haven how much will it cost to go from new haven to west haven

21-21, or $2.50.

Pictures from Sunday. The first row is from Hood Terrace, the second from Railroad Avenue.