determined that the Erie will still have to work with the federal government in moving troops around for the war process, and that the Erie was unnecessarily delaying the improvements. The improvements were then decided to be removed from the Erie's responsibility until conditions warrant. On August 24, 1922, the board demanded that the Erie, now after the war effort, file plans on February 1, and begin improving the Passaic Park station by March 10 of the next year. The station at Passaic Park was finished in 1923, as a new Spanish-revival station with a slate roof, similar in fashion to stations at Mahwah, New Jersey and Painted Post, New York. The Passaic Plan (1949–1963) During the 1950s and 1960s, several different entities (with interests in the cities of Paterson and Passaic) had desires/needs that interacted in a way that would change the future of railroads in the area. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, which had long competed with the Erie both in northern New Jersey and extending westward, was having financial troubles and wanted to reduce passenger service, sharing trackage and the obligation to transport passengers with the Erie. Secondly, the city officials in Passaic brought a proposal to the Erie to examine the feasibility of removing the main line through the city's downtown area, which was causing traffic jams during station stops. This, however, was not implemented during the 1950s, as proposed. Instead, the Erie reconstructed the stations at Passaic and Clifton. Third, the New Jersey State Highway Department needed rights-of-way for Interstate 80 through Paterson and State Route 21 through Passaic. The Passaic Park station and BE Drawbridge, which spanned the nearby Passaic River, would need to be demolished to build State Route 21. After the October 17, 1960 merger between the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the Erie, city officials in Passaic reiterated the possibility of removing the tracks through Main Street, Passaic. This time, the newly formed Erie Lackawanna Railway went forward with it, beginning the process to move its main line onto the former Boonton Branch through Lyndhurst, Passaic and Clifton. On April 2, 1963, the last train passed through the station and the former Erie main from BE Draw to Paterson. The main line was abandoned past Carlton Hill, and BE Drawbridge was swung in the open position, and soon put up for sale price of $0.00 in 1964 by the mayor