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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