George Washington Bridge Bus Station Reopens On Tuesday May 16 -- Updated

Good news for riders who use the George Washington Bridge Bus Station.  The long delayed renovation project at the Station is almost completed and reopened for bus passengers on Tuesday May 16. The construction lasted two years longer than anticipated due to problems with the contractors and developers. NJ Transit has also announced that cash fares will no longer be accepted for its routes that service the terminal in order to speed boarding and departures. Riders will have to purchase tickets from either the windows, the ticket machines or use the NJT Mobile App.  There was plenty of TV coverage today about the re-opening including from WNBC-TV, and NY1.  We will have additional reports in the near future.



The new gate assignments for GWBBS routes are:

NJT Route     Gate

171                 12

175                 13

178                 17

181                 14

182                 18

186                 15

188                 11

Coach USA/Rockland

9A              Gate 5

Ameribus/Saddle River Tours

11C            Gate 4

20/84          Gate 4


Express/Spanish Transportation Jitneys

Gates 20 and 21

Saddle River Tours Taking Over the 11C and 20/84 Routes Effective May 5th

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.  

Red and Tan Lines Route 25 (1959)

Here is a 1959 Red and Tan Schedule for Route 25 between New Milford and Washington Heights.  It was operated by Hill Bus Company, a predecessor to Rockland Coaches.  A schedule from 1981 for the same route is posted here.  This service still exists today as part of the 11C, which was taken over by Saddle River Tours on May 5, 2014 after Rockland Coaches dropped the route.

Vintage NJ Bus Pictures

Nycsubway.org, besides being a great resource for the NY City Subway, has hundreds of vintage bus pictures on the site.

Check out this link for a bunch of vintage Maplewood Equipment pictures:

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/showpix?nsystem=463

There are links to pictures for Transport of New Jersey/NJT, Red and Tan and many others around the Tri-State Area.

Red and Tan Lines/Rockland Coaches Route 84 (1983)

 

Here is a Red and Tan Route 84 Schedule from 1983. Red and Tan has been cutting back this route dramatically over the last few years. They currently are only running a handful of rush hour buses combined with the 20 line. Saddle River Tours took over the 20/84 line on May 5, 2014 after Rockland Coaches dropped the route.  Interestingly, the last run of the night back in 1983 was also a combined 84/20 run to the Rockland Psychiatric Center.

Rockland Coaches/Red and Tan Route 25 (1981)

Here is an old rockland coaches/red and tan lines route 25 schedule from 1981.  This route was merged with the 11C line in the early 1990s.  The 11C, now operated by Saddle River Tours, still covers most of the old 25 route today.

Welcome to the New Jersey Bus Blog

Hi. Welcome to my blog.  I plan to use this blog to post some old new jersey bus schedules from my collection.  If you have any you would like to share (especially from the 1930s through the 1990s), please send them to me at njbus86@yahoo.com.  Here is a classic Red and Tan 11A Schedule from 1987.