Montclair, NJ – New Jersey Transit shared more information Tuesday on its alternate service to replace DeCamp bus line commuter service starting April 10, including timetables (below) and an interactive service map for all the modified bus routes. The timetables, labeled West Essex Emergency Service, offer weekday peak service only.
“It is important to note that this emergency service plan will only include weekday peak periods for the four modified bus routes and will not duplicate the current DeCamp routes in their entirety, though the variants will mirror many portions of the current routes,” says Jim Smith, NJ Transit’s Chief Communication Officer. “During weekends and off-peak weekdays, customers are advised to utilize existing NJ TRANSIT services. NJ TRANSIT will continually monitor ridership demand, and will be able to make adjustments in June if warranted and as resources allow.”
The plan includes extending four existing NJ TRANSIT bus routes that will accommodate approximately 85% of current weekday DeCamp customers. The remaining customers will largely be accommodated by leveraging existing bus, rail and light rail service, as well as local municipal bus shuttles.
NJ TRANSIT 191D – will provide alternate service for DeCamp’s Route 66 customers in West Orange and Montclair.
Morning Peak: First trip departs Mississippi Loop at 5:55 AM; Last trip departs Mississippi Loop at 8:25 AM.
Afternoon/Evening Peak to Mississippi Loop: First trip departs PABT at 4:15 PM; Last trip departs PABT at 7:45 PM. Trips will depart from Door 2.
NJ TRANSIT 192D – will provide alternate service for DeCamp’s Route 33 customers in Bloomfield.
Morning Peak: First trip departs Broad & Liberty Street at 5:50 AM; Last trip departs Broad & Liberty Street at 8:50 AM.
Afternoon/Evening Peak to Broad & Liberty St.: First trip departs PABT at 4:15 PM; Last trip departs PABT at 8:00 PM. Trips will depart from Door 1.
NJ TRANSIT 195D – will provide alternate service for DeCamp’s Route 33 customers in West Caldwell, Caldwell and Verona.
Morning Peak: First trip departs Kirkpatrick Lane in West Caldwell at 5:25 AM; Last trip departs Kirkpatrick Lane in West Caldwell at 8:25 AM.
Afternoon/Evening Peak to Kirkpatrick Lane: First trip departs PABT at 4:30 PM; Last trip departs PABT at 7:30 PM. Trips will depart from Door 3.
NJ TRANSIT 199D – will provide alternate service for DeCamp’s Route 44 customers in Newark, Belleville, North Arlington and Lyndhurst.
Morning Peak: First trip departs Heller Parkway & Mt. Prospect Avenue at 5:38 AM; Last trip departs Heller Parkway & Mt. Prospect Avenue at 8:38 AM.
Afternoon/Evening Peak to Heller Parkway & Mt. Prospect Avenue: First trip departs PABT at 4:30 PM; Last trip departs PABT at 8:00 PM. Trips will depart from Door 4.
More information about the service can be found here: https://www.njtransit.com/decamp.
A lot more people who work late or go out after work will be driving into the city, or not going out at night in NYC. Others will just stay home to avoid the rush hours’ crush. It’s a situation totally contrary to good public policy under any circumstances, let alone a climate crisis and gas crunch. Subsidized attractive constant reliable mass transit is what this region needs for real estate values and economic growth to be sustained.
“Climate Crisis and Gas Crunch.” I’m confused. Isn’t the administration’s goal to ameliorate the former by promoting the latter? It’s probably an innocent “mal-asssertion” or effort to “dis-unambiguate energy issues,” but be careful, hgoldman77, this site is full of sharp-eyed clerks who love to trip us up.
And “real estate values and economic growth”…? Lucky you missed the big Chase Bank Branch Mass Resistance Strike a few weeks back. I didn’t see a single sign supportive of your issues. The Club for Economic Growth is not particularly welcome in Gaia-ville.
And this is not a trick question: will NJTransit cross-honor DeCamp tickets?
I think for Montclair riders this schedule makes perfect sense and should become permanent.
NJT is providing PEAK mass transit option with high environmental efficiency. To ask for service in NON-PEAK hours/days is to do the opposite. It would be more efficient for the NON-PEAK computers to buy an electric car and drive to a Park & Ride, or a drive their single seat ride straight to NYC. Or, just drive to the parking deck & electrified train at Bay St.
The property values will now stabilize at market rates instead of the artificially inflated levels caused by the mass transit subsidies. Between this and rent control, Montclair becomes more affordable…almost overnight.
Further, we have had a singular development strategy (for over a decade) of building substantial mixed-use developments where we can live/work/play/pay. So, we have been lessening our reliance on interstate commuting residents. In conjunction with our plan, NYC is implementing congesting pricing (and keeping the receipts for themselves) to discourage us from backpedaling. And don’t get me started about the income tax thing.
Bottomline, it is easier, more profitable, and better for the Earth for NYC commuters to resign and work around here – and before you get laid-off. Of course, while we don’t like the term reverse-commuting (a pride thing), we will accept reverse commuters…as long as they take the train.
More sage advice from Frank R?: “It would be more efficient for the NON-PEAK computers (sic) to buy an electric car…” Now why didn’t I think of that? Let’s say I’m dependent on a bus during non-peak hours, isn’t an expensive EV sort of out of the question? A lack of disposable income is mostly the reason I take the bus.
There’s a kind of thinking here that’s reminiscent of 2008, when Rahm Emmanuel, contemplating the global financial meltdown famously said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” So DeCamp goes out of business, which is a crisis for some who depended on them for vital employment, and your advice is to break the bank for an EV?
Better yet still: You suggest I “resign and work around here…” It might be a trick question: what does “around here” mean exactly and for whom? And do you know someone’s who’s hiring? Please post it here on Baristanet. And if they can provide their employees with company cars, that would be really boffo, Frank. Preferably an EV. No, hold on a sec. Definitely an EV. Where do I apply?
I notice when one goes upper-case on the word “earth” there are other priorities in play.
Jeez, I have to be serious all the time? OK, let’s do serious.
Ridership for NJT trains serving Montclair is off significantly and show little indication it will rebound anytime soon. By significantly, I’ll guess, anecdotally, easily by more than a third. Next time you take the train, just ask the conductors what business is like.
This will eventually impact the frequency of trains and bring back the conversation about closing the Mountain Ave station and makes exploring extending weekend train service up the line a non-starter. If we want to also run NJT buses off-peak at DeCamp-like levels, the cost per rider for Montclair will go up dramatically. That riders will W Orange will return at past levels to the long & winding 66-like route is delusional. So, let’s put aside my funning’ over environmental impacts and just go straight economics – it is an unsustainable mass transit model based on last century’s mindset.
Can someone explain to me how Montclairians driving an EV or taking an electric train has any bearing on saving the planet? I know there is an expression that “it’s a small world” but the reality is it is a big planet. Montclair is a speck in US and the US is speck on the world stage. Now if you want to say Montclair buys more than its share of products including EVs from earth polluting countries then I will agree that Montclair can do better. Judging by the amount of UPS, FedEx, and Amazon trucks I see in town Montclair could do better….but we won’t.
Frank, sorry, I didn’t realize you were being funny. Now I see the humor.
Flipside. I have a neighbor who has a sign in the front yard (yeah I’m one of those who finds that whole yardsign thing preposterous) that reads “Climate Action Now!” and I swear those big trucks pull up five times a day somedays, and at least twenty trucks a day for the whole block and it takes a gust of wind to blow the fumes away.
I often wonder if someone like that gets it, or if they were also among the crowd denouncing gas leaf blowers at city hall. “Climate Action Now/Leave Package at Door!”
Do you ever get the feeling that someone changed the meaning of hypocrisy along the way and we never received the memo?
flipside,
Our national EV public policy is not good policy. Fatal flaws include its focuse on the consumer marketplace and it does not measurably change consumption behavior. It actually has the likely effect of increasing consumption. We’ve no chance of getting anywhere close to the reduction target levels for 2030. This policy will ensure we far well short of the next set, too. So, yes, unfortunately, you are right on each point.
For my final ride on DeCamp into NYC I’d love to leave a comment on “Clever Commute” but I never had the keys to the codes. I’d love to say I will miss the plush seats and the dim lighting, or that I met my future wife when there was standing room only and I gave up my seat. Or how Sal’s legacy lived on with a new generation of drivers who took my ticket with a gentle, ‘Welcome aboard, good buddy,’ every morning. I’d also like to thank my fellow commuters at Bellevue Plaza who taught me an entirely new language — commuterese — beginning with “It was supposed to be here at 7:35” and including “I think some drivers are out sick today.” So thank you, DeCamp, and thank you, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. You were always the Island of Aruba to me.