Ramsey Route 17 is a modern park & ride station that opened on Sunday, August 22, 2004, costing $27.5 million ($22,070 per new commuter parking space). The station consists of two 8 car long high-level side platforms for the two track line with a fence running between them. There is enough space between the tracks to add a third track which is on New Jersey Transit’s capital improvements wish-list between Waldwick and Suffern to allow more flexibility along this busy 3 lines combined Main Line. The stop is served by all local trains to and from Suffern on the Main and Bergen County Lines and most Metro-North Port Jervis Line Express trains, express trains (stopping at only Secaucus Junction) make the trip in only 39 minutes, compared to over an hour on most local trains. The modern platforms both have green colored canopy structures over their southern halves leading to exposed portions over their northern portions, with white fencing (that is full height in the portion of the platform between the Route 17 overpass). There is a small enclosed waiting area with doors enclosing a couple benches along each platform, but no proper station house, just the large parking garage.
The station is located directly under the Route 17 expressway/divided highway. The stop has a large 5 level, 1,246 space parking garage that is nestled just south of Route 17 and Island Road that ends at the station. The parking garage costs $5 per weekday, $4 per weekend day, and $75 per month. The parking garage is at an angle to the Port Jervis-bound platform, with a secondary staircase down to the southern end of the Port Jervis-bound platform. This allows daylight to reach the passenger pick-up and drop-off area (with short term parking spaces for drivers waiting for passengers), that does require passengers to pass through a segregated portion of the first level of the parking garage. This drop-off area has a gentle ramp up to the Port Jervis-bound platform, that gives the effect that it isn’t obvious that you're on a high-level platform until you enter it. The parking garage has decorative silver accents to give some architecture detail and make it look less like the concrete parking garage the station actually is.
All access to the Hoboken-bound platform is via a green walled enclosed by glass pedestrian bridge that leads out from the 3rd-level of the parking garage, where two elevators are (that are the accessible connectoin between the two platforms via the parking garage) along the northern side of the station’s car loop, a staircase lead down to the Port Jervis-bound platform, the top of this stairwell has a clock on it. The angle of the bridge changes before it crosses over the tracks and ends at an elevator and staircase down to the Hoboken-bound platform. The end of the bridge at this lading has a mosaic of a steam train stopping at the historic Ramsey station called Ramsey Born of the Railroad by DeBorah Goletz, the steam train looks like it is going to run into while you cross the bridge.
Photos 1-64: June 4, 2013 on a visit by bicycle
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