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Travelers to Asbury Park who are unfamiliar with the city’s layout will no longer have to seek another human out to be pointed in the right direction when they disembark from the train.

The Asbury Park City Council approved new signage for the interior of the Asbury Park Transportation Center at Wednesday’s council meeting.

Signs for “Downtown/Main St.” and “Cookman Ave.”, “West Side / Springwood Ave.”,  and “Northbound Trains” will be placed above the interior doorways that correspond to the general locations beyond them.

“We’ve long recognized the need for directional signage in the transportation center,” said Donald Sammett, the city’s director of planning and redevelopment. “It helps orientate people and get them where they need to go, and helps them feel safer and more secure.”

The Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce secured a private sponsor to pay for the signs, according to Executive Director Jackie Pappas. The chamber is “already looking forward to an early spring season of visitors coming to Asbury Park,” she said in an email to the Sun.

The group has already installed two exterior map signs on both sides of the tracks and hope to expand the project by adding more map signs to the downtown and boardwalk areas over the next few years, she said.

“The train station signage has really made the train station more user-friendly and welcoming,” she said. “We get a lot of postive feedback.”

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