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Inverness Drive Park and Ride is a park and ride station located at the intersection of US Route 9 and Inverness Drive in Old Bridge, New Jersey. The station is part of the Route 9 corridor.    Services   These buses go to Inverness Park and Ride: 64 - Lakewood to Lincoln Harbor via Route 9. This runs every 30 minutes, peak only. 67 - Toms River Park and Ride to Newark via Route 9 and Hooper Avenue. This bus runs every 135 minutes.  139 - Port Authority Bus Terminal to Lakewood via Route 9. This bus runs every 15 minutes or so, but at peak times can run as frequently as every 90 seconds.  Academy Bus Route 9 -  This is an Academy Bus version of the 139 that runs at peak only every 19 minutes. Tour The entire station. There really isn't all that much at Inverness Drive Park and Ride. All you get is a parking lot, shelter, and a space to pay for your parking.  The parking lot.   Usually, the parking lot at Inverness Drive is almost empty.  Park...

Eddystone is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located at East 7th Street and Saville Avenue in Eddystone, PA. This station is a flag stop for the Wilmington-Newark Line. Eddystone is by far the least used station on the Wilmington-Newark Line and for the entire SEPTA Regional Rail network as a whole. Eddystone is unsurprisingly also a flag stop.  History      Eddystone station was most likely built in the 1870s, named after the Eddystone Print Works, which relocated there from Philadelphia in 1876. Said print works were named after the Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, UK. In the 1890s, Eddington became an incorporated borough. Saville Avenue near the station was named after the man who founded the borough's wife's maiden name, in honour of her.        The height of this station was in the early 1900s, when the famous Baldwin Locomotive Company was established and had a factory very close by. At its peak, this factory produced mill...

Rising Sun & Olney Loop is a SEPTA loop located at Rising Sun and Olney Avenues in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia. This loop was not selected to be remodeled in the 2010s.  Bus Service and Connections There are two buses that go here:  26 - Pulaski-Rittenhouse and Olney Transit Center to Frankford Transit Center: The 26 is normally a crosstown bus linking northwest, north, and northeast Philadelphia. Here though, this loop instead is only used for some peak short turns of the bus.  57 - Whitman Plaza to Rising Sun-Olney/Fern Rock Transit Center: This is a vertical bus that goes all the way across the city, mainly along 3rd/4th Streets, and then American Street, and eventually Front Street and Rising Sun Avenue. Most trips of this route end at this loop, with only some continuing to Fern Rock Transit Center Additionally, there is one bus connection immediately nearby:  18 - Fox Chase to Cedarbrook Plaza: This is another crosstown bu...

Teterboro is a station on NJT's Pascack Valley Line. The station is located along Green street near the overpass with US-46 in the borough of Teterboro, NJ.  Tour This picture is almost all of Teterboro station. What a station it is.  That is the single platform. It's very thin, with more space for the tracks than the actual station itself. Folded bike for comparison Much of the small platform is the very wide yellow line, which lacks a tactile strip.  Closer look at the yellow strip Behind the platform is a guard rail from a highway, probably added to seperate the parking lot from the platform. This probably has to do with the fact that the platform itself is asphalt.  Another view of tracks and fence That fence wasn't always there. People often used to get to this station from the dead end street to the west of the station named Williams Avenue. the fence itself was installed in Feb...