Station Review #81: Avandale Bus Park & Ride (NJT)


Avandale Park and Ride is a bus station that serves multiple NJT bus routes. The park and ride is located along Willamstown New Freedom Road in Sicklerville, NJ, near the Atlantic City Expressway. 

Services

There are multiple services that use Avandale Park and Ride, these include

316: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Wildwood and Cape May via Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway

400: Sicklerville and Avandale Loop to Philadelphia

459: Avandale Loop to Lindenwold and Voorhees Town Center

463: Avandale Loop to Woodbury

551: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Atlantic City via Atlantic City Expressway 

555: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Avandale Loop 

Additionally, the SJTA runs a service: 

Pureland East-West Shuttle: Avandale Loop to Pureland Industrial Park (Logan Township) via Glassboro and Mullica Hill

Tour

Avandale Park and Ride's bus structures from behind
 
There really isn't all that much at Avandale Park and Ride.

The driveway to the parking lot

A lot of times, plazas bus routes go to can be treated as park and rides. Avandale Park and Ride is essentially a plaza without the stores. 

Adding onto the plaza comparisons, an environmentally friendly storm drainage area

Art installation

NJT really likes to add extremely abstract art installations at stations sometimes. Here, I can't really tell what's going on at all. It does distract from what is otherwise the complete emptiness around Avandale Park and Ride. 

Bench

A few of the screens, but they're very broken

Bus schedule signs, including a schedule for the Pureland East-West Shuttle

Bike Rack

I honestly think it's kind of neat that there's a bike rack here. 

An... interesting sight...

There is no accessible bathroom here, and the porta potty is fenced off and locked.  

The bus facilities from the parking lot

The parking lot is one of the main features of this station. 90% of the station is the parking lot.

Oh.

If you had trouble realizing how large the parking lot is, that image should put it into perspective. Right behind it are some sidewalk paths that lead directly to the houses behind the parking lot. 

Points of Interest Near Avandale Park and Ride

There is incredibly little near Avandale Park and Ride. North of the bus loop, there is some houses, and a town named Sicklerville nearby. Sicklerville has very little in it, besides a Wawa, a Puerto Rican restaurant, and a diner. Despite this, Sicklerville is probably the closest thing Winslow Township has to any sort of downtown area. 

Statistics


Name: Avandale Bus Park and Ride
Agency: NJT/SJTA
Line(s): 316, 400, 459, 463, 551, 555, Pureland East-West Community Shuttle
Locality: Sicklerville
City/Township: Winslow
County: Camden
State: New Jersey
Ridership: N/A

Amenity Checklist


Some vestige of accessibility: ✓
Employee bathrooms: ✓
Clean: ✓
Connections to other transit routes: ✓
Easy to get around: ✓
Lighting: ✓
Maps: ✓ (SJTA only)
Seating: ✓
Shelters: ✓
Something for fares: ✓
Station in Good Condition: ✓ 
Updated Signage: ✓

Final Verdict: 7.5/10. Frankly it's not perfect (and if anything is a little bit lacking), but it does what it needs to do. 

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