SECAUCUS, NJ-People started talking about it 40 years ago, and engineering work began in 1989. Actual construction started eight years ago, and after a two-year delay relating to the destruction of the World Trade Center PATH light rail station on 9/11, the Secaucus Transfer Station linking 10 of the Garden State's 11 rail lines is officially open.

Only it's not known by that name anymore. When Gov. James McGreevey and other dignitaries cut the ribbon at the end of last week, it was announced that the 312,000-sf complex would be known as the Frank R. Lautenberg Station at Secaucus Junction. The honoree is New Jersey's once and US senator, who was instrumental in gaining $450 million in federal funding for the project.

The long-awaited project is costing $600 million, including $300 million for new trackage, $150 million for the building itself and the rest for ancillary work on the station and site, including a yet-to-be-constructed interchange with the adjacent New Jersey Turnpike. Besides the federal package, New Jersey Transit is getting help in the form of $53 million from New York's MTA Metro-North Railroad, whose Rockland County rail lines tie in with the station.

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