Saddle River Tours is taking over the soon to be discontinued Rockland Coaches 11C and 20/84 Routes beginning Monday May 5th with their new Ameribus Service. They have cut one run on the 20/84 in each direction. They have also cut several more 11C runs with the last bus leaving the GWB at 6:45 on weekdays. The weekday 8:45PM trip to Spring Valley has been eliminated from the new weekday schedule, but it will continue to run on weekends. They are also providing very limited weekend service on the 11C with only 3-4 buses in each direction.
We wish them luck but this will not help increase ridership or alleviate the crowding at the PABT and Lincoln Tunnel. To increase GWB ridership, innovative new services need to be introduced including exclusive bus lanes over the bridge, more convenient service, introduction of express runs, and service to midtown via the east side.
I am not a regular rider of this route or even the Rockland Coaches service into PABT downtown but I was wondering about seeing the new Ameribus decals on some buses. I had to use it yesterday as a car was in the garage and was surprised at the "new transition" and appalled at the state of the GW Bus Terminal in utter chaos while it is renovated in some fashion. It is not good news for North Jersey commuters for sure after years of neglect.
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