Jersey Avenue is the red-haired stepchild of the Northeast Corridor. You can’t get a train headed to New York after 9:18 a.m., and the station, owned and operated by the New Brunswick Parking Authority, isn’t served at all on weekends or holidays.

When this column first appeared under my byline nearly two decades ago, one of the first ones involved reporting on an open house that NJ Transit schedulers held at the station. Drew Galloway, then the chief of rail scheduling, commented that if it could build a platform where trains originating in Trenton could pick up passengers, NJ Transit would develop the site as a full-time station.