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Station Review #131: Vineland Transportation Center (NJT)

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Vineland Transportation Center is a bus station located near Landis Avenue in Vineland, New Jersey. The bus station is served by NJT, and is the primary station for CATS, the transit system for Cumberland County, New Jersey.  Services CATS bus There are a lot of services that run to Vineland Transportation Center CATS Almost every CATS bus runs to Vineland Transportation Center. These include: Landis Avenue X-Press (LAX): This is a bus that goes from Vineland Transportation Center to Bridgeton via Landis Avenue, serving Norma and Rosenhayn on the way. This bus only runs three trips a day per direction, during rush hour only. Millville Area Connector (MAC): This bus is a loop, linking various parts of Millville to downtown Vineland, including Vineland Transportation Center, as well as a large produce market. This bus only runs four trips a day per direction, rush hours only. Social Services Shuttle (SSS): This bus goes from Vineland Transportation Center to t...

Station Review #128: Cheltenham-Ogontz Loop (SEPTA)

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Cheltenham-Ogontz Loop is a Bus station on Cheltenham Avenue and Ogontz Avenue (State route 309) in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, operated by SEPTA.  Bus Services There are multiple bus routes that stop at Cheltenham-Ogontz Loop, these include:    6 - Cheltenham-Ogontz to Olney Transit Center: This bus goes down Ogontz Avenue towards Olney Transit Center, and has some of the highest ridership in the entire SEPTA network 16 - City Hall to Cheltenham-Ogontz: In tandem with the 4 bus further south, the 16 is one of the buses that runs along Broad Street, paralleling the Broad Street Line, and connecting to almost every station north of City Hall, including Olney Transit Center. Only Fern Rock Transit Center is excluded here. This route was originally part of Route C. 22 -  Warminster/Willow Grove to Olney Transit Center: This bus goes along Easton Road to Willow Grove Mall. About one trip an hour goes to Warminster. Warminster trips before 9:30 pm or...

Station Review #125: Neenah Transit Center (Valley Transit)

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Neenah Transit Center is one of the two transit centers of the Valley Transit system. This station is a relocation of the previous Church Street station, and was originally designed to be temporary, yet is still there multiple years later.  Services Four fixed bus routes depart from Neenah Transit Center, these are:  Valley Transit 30 - Neenah/Menasha: Appleton/Valley Transit Center to Neenah Transit Center via Menasha 31 - East Neenah: Neenah Transit Center to Doty Island and south end of Neenah 32 - West Neenah: Neenah Transit Center to west end of Neenah 41 - West Fox Valley: Neenah Transit Center to Fox Crossing Go Transit Go Connect: Would this count as microtransit? It uses a taxi between Neenah Transit Center and Oshkosh-Downtown Transit Center. You need to call Oshkosh City Cab the day before (before 4:30 PM) to ride this. This replaced the old Route 10 bus that went between the two transit centers. When I tried riding it, Oshkosh City Cab compl...

Station Review #121: Croydon (SEPTA)

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Croydon is a station on the Trenton Line. The station is located at Bristol Pike and Cedar Avenue in Croydon, PA. Croydon is a census designated place in Bristol Township, located in south central Bucks County.  History Croydon station has a far longer and more storied history than one would expect, going back to 1834 with the opening of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. Originally, the station was about 1000 feet or so away from the site of the current station. At the time, the station was cakled Schenck station, named after Dr. Joseph H. Schenck, who owned a large mansion nearby at the time. Schencks was a rich man, and there is a possibility that he had a railway branch off of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. No one knows when exactly the station was renamed, or rebuilt the first time. All that is known is this it was after 1885.  Croydon station today is virtually unrecognizable from the Croydon station of the past. The old station house ...