Access to the area improved with the upgrade of old travel routes such as old New York State Route 17. On the other hand, passenger train access ended with the September 10, 1953 termination of passenger trains on the Ontario and Western Railway mainline from Roscoe at the northern edge of Sullivan County, through the Borscht Belt, to Weehawken, New Jersey. The area suffered as a travel destination in the late 1950s and especially by the '60s. Another source also confirms that "cheap air travel suddenly allowed a new generation to visit more exotic and warmer destinations".