"Station Converted into Museum" is #5 on Worst-Stimulus List

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:32 pm

Just one point, if I may:

Anybody with an axe to grind can find a way, via creative accounting and writing, to make ANY government project look idiotic and a waste of money. This is not to say that there are never any wasteful or idiotic government projects--there indeed are--but any critic's description must be examined more closely.

One classic example is the way Amtrak is sometimes described as costing $XXX per passenger, in such a way as to imply that it would be cheaper to buy every passenger a Greyhound ticket. True--but what do the airports and big highways cost "per user"?

The famed "bridge to nowhere" project in Alaska is another classic example. Using the same style of criticism used by that project's critics, how about I tell you of a four-lane Interstate highway built ten miles between a community college campus and a zip code that has almost no residents? I've conveniently ignored the fact that it ALSO connects two Interstate highways to a major international airport...... (The "bridge to nowhere" was to span one of the busiest intracoastal waterways in North America, heavily used by cruise ships and freighters, and serve an airport that was to be expanded to more readily serve a "backwater" of the Alaskan panhandle.)

Chris Webster · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:45 am **Posts:** 1087

Mr. Ed wrote:

The money given to the Borough of Glassboro was to buy the property from CSAO and fence it in. The borough is now actively soliciting funds to restore the building. It will then be used for community functions and if memory serves, it will be available to organizations for meetings. At it's heyday, the PRSL was running freight and passenger service through there on double tracks. There was another station across the tracks for the southbound trains. Just before the tracks crossed the street to enter the station, there was a switch that the rail took to run down to Millville NJ. The switch is still in and the track runs across the street through another switch and both tracks run about 1/2 mile to terminate at the street when they removed the crossing about four years ago. This rail was severed when they put Route 55 in. The exisiting track is active for freight service to Vineland. For more information, look on the PRSL thread.

Thank you for taking the time to post this detailed explanation.

Mr. Ed · **Posted:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:46 pm

You're welcome! If they get the donations, I'll be there to help retore the building to it's former glory. You really need to see how nice it looked in it's heyday.

Later!
Mr. Ed