NJ Transit buses will start providing service in Bayonne starting Monday morning with a new No. 12 route to take over from the Broadway Bus Company which ended service Sunday.
Schedules are now posted on the NJ Transit website, said John Chartier, an agency spokesperson.
The NJ Transit route also offers a connection Hudson-Bergen Light Rail at the 8th Street and Avenue C station.
The route covers almost the entire length of Broadway. On Dec. 10, it will offer connects to the No. 6 and 8 buses at the Twin City Shopping Center.
Broadway runs through the heart of Bayonne’s business and shopping district. The company announced in November it would end service on its lone route.
This is the sixth time since 2021 NJ Transit will take over a route of a private bus carrier that is leaving the local bus business.
Broadway Bus ran hourly service and NJ Transit will run more frequent, every 30-minute service, said Mike Kilcoyne, NJ Transit bus operations general manager in an earlier interview.
Operating the Broadway line is estimated to cost $1.6 million annually. That route could not be combined with other NJ Transit bus routes which run parallel to Broadway, Kilcoyne said.
In a statement, Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis thanked NJ Transit for taking over the route, “so that bus service will continue for the senior citizens, shoppers, students, workers, and others who use the Broadway Bus.”
“I would like to thank Emil Massa and his predecessors for their long service to the community with the Broadway Bus,” Mayor Davis said.
In the Fiscal Year 2025 budget, NJ Transit allocated $40 million to run former private bus routes taken over since 2021 when DeCamp Bus, A&C and Orange-Newark-Elizabeth Inc. (Coach USA) ended their commuter bus operations and NJ Transit stepped in.