Where, oh where, does that little bus go?

April 13th 2007 08:18 pm

Anyone who has ever tried to figure out where any particular NJ Transit bus goes has quickly discovered that NJT does not make system maps.  And the diagrams on the bus schedules sometimes look like they apply to a world created by M. C. Escher.  Enter Mike Vago, who needed to find out where the buses in his new neighborhood went, so he could get to work.

Mike started to make his own comprehensive bus map for Hudson County.  And he put it online at jerseymap.org.  Besides learning where the buses go, Mike says he also learned how to spell Secaucus.  But he apparently hasn’t learned how to spell Kearny yet.

Take a look at Mike’s map.  Given that I had NJT train schedules online a year before NJT itself did, maybe NJT can be goaded into publishing their own system maps.

(Hat tip to Kelly Heyboer.)

Posted by Bob Scheurle under Schedules.

5 Responses to “Where, oh where, does that little bus go?”

  1. ABG responded on 14 Apr 2007 at 10:38 pm #

    Looks great! He doesn’t have the Boulevard East or Paterson vans, but that’s understandable. With enough volunteers it should be relatively easy to create a map for all of New Jersey.

  2. John 76 responded on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:06 pm #

    Actually NJT does publish county bus maps. When I worked in Hudson County I had one as well as the Essex county map. Now I live in Mercer County and NJT publishes maps of the whole county and also maps of Trenton Bus Routes.

  3. Joe Versaggi responded on 23 Apr 2007 at 10:51 am #

    I have never seen one. They do no good if they are not in the racks in the RR stations or other government building lobbies. If you mean those schematics with the big circles on them listing bus route numbers, they are useless. MTA-style county bus maps are what is needed.

  4. Bob Scheurle responded on 23 Apr 2007 at 12:50 pm #

    I never saw a county map published by NJT. I’ve seen maps published by the county governments; In particular, Essex, Morris, and Middlesex. They were of various degrees of utility, and I don’t know if they were kept up to date.

  5. John 76 responded on 23 Apr 2007 at 10:27 pm #

    The maps are not always available but they are usually available. Generally you have to go to a place with an information customer service rep. and ask for one. They are similar to MTA bus route maps and I find them helpful especially when I ride a new bus to a place I don’t usually go.

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