West Haven (Metro-North station)
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| Address | Sawmill Road between Hood Terrace and Railroad Avenue | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°16′18″N 72°57′39″W / 41.2718°N 72.9609°WCoordinates: 41°16′18″N 72°57′39″W / 41.2718°N 72.9609°W | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 1,229 | ||||||||||
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West Haven is a future railroad station on Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line in West Haven, Connecticut. The station is being built on Sawmill Road between Hood Terrace and Railroad Avenue. Plans include 1,229 parking spaces, including 629 in a parking garage in a refurbished industrial building north of the station. Along with the station complex there are intentions to build an adjacent residential development of 325 units.
Groundbreaking of the station occurred on November 10, 2010 with the presence of outgoing Governor Jodi Rell. The station is expected to cost $118 million.[1]
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[edit] Project history
On June 19, 2006, West Haven Mayor John M. Picard and U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro held a press conference announcing that DeLauro had secured $1.2 million in federal funding for the project, and that that amount had brought the federal funding commitment as of that date to $3.2 million.[2][3]
By June 2008, the design process was expected to be completed in April 2009, and construction was expected to begin in June 2009 and last for two years.[4] In October 2008, the University of New Haven announced plans to build a law school on the site of the station, adding to the transit-oriented development plans for the area.[5]
[edit] External links
- 7 Dec 2006 article in West Haven Voice
- West Haven Train Station and Transit Oriented Development: A Proposal For Action
[edit] See also
Fairfield Metro Center, another new rail station on the New Haven Line
[edit] References
- ^ Pinto, Amanda (November 10, 2010). "All Aboard: Ground broken on much anticipated West Haven rail station". New Haven Register. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/11/10/news/metro/doc4cdaf0415c5aa995748114.txt. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
- ^ "Train station funding announced". City of West Haven. http://cityofwesthaven.com/contentpage.asp?page=Train&nfolder=11. Retrieved 2008-10-25.[dead link]
- ^ "DeLauro, West Haven Officials Announce $1.2 Million For Construction of the West Haven Train Station" (Press release). Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro. June 19, 2006. http://delauro.house.gov/release.cfm?id=1124. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
- ^ Smith, Abbe (June 9, 2008). "W. Haven Station Design Shows Grand Transit Hub". New Haven Register. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/06/09/past_stories/19917977.txt. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
- ^ Goulston, Robert (October 14, 2008). "Law School, Train Station Proposed For West Haven". WFSB. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2008/06/09/past_stories/19917977.txt. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
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