[8] During the 1950s and 1960s, several different priorities from different agencies around the cities of Paterson and Passaic were beginning to form.

The Passaic Park station and the BE Drawbridge needed to be demolished to build State Route 21.

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.

[9] In 1962, the state Public Utility Commission approved the removal of the tracks.

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 of Passaic.