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It’ll take about three years to complete, but rebuilding work is under way at New Jersey Transit’s Metropark Station on the Northeast Corridor.

To be completed in early 2010, the $47 million projects calls widening platforms to accommodate 12-car trains; constructing heated and air-conditioned platform shelters; expanding the station building to add a second vendor space and larger waiting room; extending canopies along each platform; and adding enclosed stairways, elevators, a public address system, LCD train information system, lighting and landscaping

Originally designed as a suburban stop for Amtrak Metroliner trains, the Metropark facility became the state’s first park-and-ride station when it opened in November 1971. Today, the facility is NJ Transit’s busiest outlying station, accommodating 14,200 commuters daily.