Systemwide changes include additional trips to help meet demand and adjustments to improve on-time performance
NEWARK – NJ TRANSIT is adding trips to four bus routes to help meet demand and reduce wait times between trips, and is making adjustments to numerous other routes to improve reliability and convenience for customers as part of a systemwide bus timetable change that takes effect April 11, 2009.
“This schedule change follows a comprehensive review of ridership trends on our bus service around the state," NJ TRANSIT Executive Director Richard Sarles said. “These adjustments will help to improve service for our bus customers within the confines of a challenging fiscal environment.”
A significant change in the No. 413 route is designed to improve on-time performance for customers in Burlington and Camden counties. The 413 will no longer operate into Philadelphia, where traffic congestion often creates significant delays for our buses navigating through the city street, in turn impacting customers in Camden and Burlington counties.
No. 413 trips will originate and end at the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden where connecting NJ TRANSIT bus and PATCO rail service is available for customers continuing to Philadelphia. Additionally, buses will operate within Cherry Hill Mall and the Mount Laurel campus of Burlington County College to provide customers with more convenient service to those destinations. The route will be renamed Camden-Mt. Holly-Burlington.
Other changes include the addition of four weekday afternoon outbound trips on the No. 324 line to offset changes to the No. 194 route, where selected p.m. peak trips will bypass Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center and Mother’s Park & Ride to provide improved express service to farther destinations.
An additional weekday evening trip on the No. 137 route will depart Toms River to reduce intervals between trips to New York, and a weekday afternoon trip will be added to the No. 85 route (Hoboken-Harmon Meadow-Mill Creek) to help alleviate overcrowding.
Atlantic City casino employees will benefit from a later weekday trip on the No. 508 route (Atlantic City-Richard Stockton College-Hamilton Mall) which at the request of customers will depart from Atlantic and South Carolina avenues in Atlantic City at 12:45 a.m., replacing a 12:05 a.m. departure.
Seasonal service to Six Flags Great Adventure from New York and Newark on the No. 308 route and from Freehold on the No. 307 route begins April 4, with service on days the park is open to the public. Weekend service to the theme park from Philadelphia and Camden on the No. 318 route begins April 18.
Customers are encouraged to review new timetables available on their buses, at
NJ TRANSIT customer service offices at major terminals or online at www.njtransit.com
