Voters in Wenonah shot down the prospect of hosting a train station for the proposed Glassboro-Camden line on Tuesday.

The question failed with 514 votes against the station and 371 in favor. Wenonah was one of the towns originally slated for train stops. The decision, however, reflects a sentiment borough residents made clear at a meeting last spring in which numerous people spoke out against joining the line, which is also expected to include Rowan University, Woodbury Heights, Mantua and Pitman among its stops. An informal poll at the March meeting was met with fewer than a dozen people saying they supported a station.

Wenonah's light rail stop would have been situated next to the town's historic train station and stretched 280 feet north along North East and North West avenues. Two sets of tracks, with a 20-foot-wide platform serving each side, would have accommodated trains coming and going as often as every seven minutes at peak hours. Each train would be composed of two cars, carrying a maximum of 280 passengers per train.

John Dominy, a Republican who was elected as the borough's new mayor Tuesday along with council candidates Carl Hausman and Paul Lader, said the uncertainty of the train's future was something council would have to keep in mind.

"The vote was non-binding. That will go before council, obviously," he said. "But quite frankly, there doesn't appear to be any governmental agency responsible for building or running the rain yet. And there appears to be a lack of funding. Council will take all that into consideration and move forward with it."

The line, intended to connect commuters with the PATCO line to Philadelphia, would likely pass through Wenonah even if the borough did not have its own stop. The entire project is on hold at the moment, however. The Federal Transportation announced that it would put a hold on the line because no public agency had taken charge.

NJ Transit funded an environmental impact study for the train route. State Senate President Steve Sweeney said in October that he "expected" the agency to take the helm.

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