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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...

Hammonton is a station on NJT's Atlantic City Line. The station is located along front street, near the intersection of Line and Front streets in Hammonton, New Jersey.    History Old station building The first Hammonton station was built sometime around 1850. It was then bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroad and rebuilt sometime before 1907. In 1989, service was brought back to Atlantic City from Philadelphia and New York City from Amtrak, which necessitated a new station be built. That new station is the station used today. The old station depot is still standing.   Tour  Atlantic City Line train. Hammonton is a fairly decent station, especially as far as NJT stations are concerned (looking at you, Delawanna ).     Inside one of the two shelters. Hammonton station has benches, TVMs, and maps. No countdown clock, however.    Platform. The platform at Hammonton station is a full high level platform.     For accessibility...

Westmont is a PATCO station located at 100 Stoy Avenue in Haddon Township, New Jersey. The station is located within Westmont, a town which constitutes 90% of Haddon township (the rest being the unincorporated towns of West Collingswood and West Collingswood Extension).    History The old Westmont station   Originally, the southern half of PATCO was part of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, a rail line constituting parts of PATCO and the present day Atlantic City Line. Westmont used to have another station on this line: Cuthbert, located at Cuthbert Boulevard.    Cuthbert Boulevard   In the mid 1960s, both old stations were demolished, and the entire line was elevated in the conversion to PATCO service. There was now frequent, direct service to Philadelphia, but service to Atlantic City was lost.   In 2011, Westmont station was made accessible with elevators added.   Tour The station. This is just every PATCO station s...

36th Street Station is a NJT station located along the River Line. The station is located along 36th Street in Pennsauken, New Jersey Tour Train 36th Street is an average River Line station in terms of design. It has most of the amenities you'd expect.  Benches Ramp and platform Unsigned crossing In order to leave the platform, you need to cross an unsigned rail crossing, which makes this station inaccessible.  Parking lot The roads in and out of this parking lot are very confusing and hard to understand  Bus Connections There are two bus connections near here: 419: Riverside to Walter Rand Transportation Center : This bus provides local service along River Road, directly paralelled by the River Line. The 419 runs hourly.  452 - Cramer Hill-Kroc Center to 36th Street Station: This bus runs in what's almost a loop, providing local bus service to much of Camden. This includes Walter Ran...

South Carolina Avenue at Atlantic Avenue is a small bus terminal located at that aforementioned intersection in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Services There are multiple NJT buses that stop here, these include:  501: This bus runs from the Atlantic City Bus Terminal to Brigantine via Harrah's and Borgata Casinos. This bus runs about once every hour.  502: This bus runs from here to Atlantic Cape Community College via Black Horse Pike.  504: This bus runs from Margate to the North Side of Atlantic City via Ventnor Heights. This bus runs about every 40 minutes, and is a mess to look at on a map.  505: This bus runs about once every 15 minutes between Venice Park, the Atlantic City Aquarium, and Longport via Atlantic Avenue. This bus is also a bit of a mess on a map.  507: This bus runs from here to Ocean City, running a bus every hour or so.  508: This bus runs from here to Hamilton Mall, similarly to the 502. The difference here is...

Union College is a bus station ran by NJT that's located at the driveway of Union College of New Jersey, a college in Cranford, NJ.  Services 58 - Elizabeth-Kenilworth:  This bus runs between Union College to Elizabeth via Broad Street and Westfield Avenue. On weekdays, this bus runs anywhere from every 20 minutes at peak times to about every 70 minutes otherwise. This is about as annoying as you'd expect it to be.  59 - Plainfield - Newark:  This bus goes from Harriet Tubman Square in Newark to Dunellen via Elizabeth Avenue, Jersey Avenue, South Avenue, and more. More specifically, the route roughly parallels US-22. Trips to Union College roughly run every 50 minutes on weekdays, save for the 90 minute gap between 12:05 PM and 1:35 PM.  66m - Newark - Springfield - Union College: This is a variant of the 66 bus that runs from Newark Penn to Union College via Springfield, terminating at Union College. This bus sometimes runs with up ...