^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF).
^ a b "Train Service Starts Today at Metropark".However, the name was removed from the station after his 1980 conviction for bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam scandal. Williams Metropark Station in 1979, in recognition of US Senator Williams' (D-NJ) support for its construction. Commuter trains continued to use Iselin station, half a mile east. It was next to the Garden State Parkway to allow easy access by automobile a large business park – "the first Edge City in the world to grow from a parking lot" – soon grew near the station. It had two 850-foot (260 m) high-level platforms and had 820 parking spaces. The station's cost had increased to $2.6 million, shared by NJDOT and the United States Department of Transportation. Īmtrak service to Metropark began on November 14, 1971. Under a plan put forward in late 1968 by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) the state would contribute $648,000 toward the cost of the station, then estimated at $1.4 million. Both were conceived as public-private partnerships. The two stations were originally named Capital Beltway Metropark and Garden State Metropark these were shortened to Capital Beltway and Metropark. Metropark was one of two park-and-ride infill stations proposed in the 1960s for use by the new Metroliners, the other being Capital Beltway in Lanham, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.
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