The 981 Port Liberté-Grove Street was a bus route operated by Seven Bus Corporation, a Coach USA subsidiary in New Jersey, under contract to New Jersey Transit for its Wheels service. It connected Port Liberté with the Grove Street Port Authority Trans-Hudson station, operating entirely within the city of Jersey City.
On April 14, 2010, as part of system-wide budget cuts, New Jersey Transit announced that it was ending Route 981 in May 2010.[1][2][3] As a result, Port Liberté announced plans to expand its private shuttle service to provide residents with access to Grove Street Station (PATH). [4][5][6]
History
editThis route was originally operated by the Central Avenue Bus Company, which was chartered in 1925.[7] By 1938, it had become the Central Avenue Bus Owners Association, an independent bus owners association of former jitney operators.[8] By 1977, the route continued south from Journal Square, near the south end of Central Avenue, to the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Communipaw Terminal.[9] The route was eventually acquired by Red & Tan in Hudson County, a subsidiary of Coach USA, and operated between Port Liberté and Hague Street in Jersey City Heights via Journal Square and Central Avenue as the 231.[10] Coach USA cancelled the route on Friday, January 27, 2006, and New Jersey Transit began operating the 981 as a replacement service on Monday, January 30.[11]
Only the portion south from Journal Square to Port Liberté did not duplicate any existing routes; NJ Transit's 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, and 88 routes already served the general area between Jersey City Heights and Journal Square or downtown Jersey City. Additional trips were added to the 87, which includes about half of the 231's Central Avenue run, to make up for the loss;[11][12] Central Avenue now sees no buses from Franklin Street north to Congress Street.
References
edit- ^ "Private Carrier Bus Service Reductions". NJ Transit. Archived from the original on 2010-04-22.
- ^ "County Executive letter: Don't abandon two bus routes, including Liberty State Park shuttle". nj.com. 2010-05-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ Zeitlinger, Ron (2010-05-10). "Liberty State Park shuttle a victim of NJ Transit cutbacks". nj.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "Port Liberte Shuttle". portliberte.com. August 1, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Port Liberté Shuttle Service Schedule" (PDF). portliberte.biz. June 2, 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-12-03.
- ^ "Port Liberte Business Directory Recommended and Preferred Partners Offered by Carla Vonbyrden". www.portliberte.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "New Jersey Charters". The New York Times. April 14, 1925. p. 34.
- ^ "Henry Hohorst; Founder of a Jersey City Bus Line Dies in Glen Rock". The New York Times. December 24, 1938. p. 15.
- ^ "New Jersey - Central Avenue IBOA". bustalk.net. Archived from the original on 2007-03-19.
- ^ "Private Carriers". NJ Transit. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05.
- ^ a b "New Jersey Transit". NJ Transit. January 24, 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "Service Adjustment". NJ Transit. January 24, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-02-20.