Spanish Transportation, officially Spanish Transportation Service Corporation, and operating under the nameExpress Service, is a privately operated bus company, which leasesminibuses to individual operators, who provide service in and between various communities innortheastern New Jersey and toManhattan inNew York City. The fleet consists mostly ofjitneys, often called "the Spanish bus" or "dollar vans" by their English-speaking users, or guaguas by their majority-Spanish clientele.[1]
The company started in 1993, and carries up to 40,000 passengers per day. It has several routes that parallelNew Jersey Transit bus routes, both competing with them and supplementing them.[2][3][4] Unlike NJ Transit's similarly operating routes, Spanish Transportation services:
The company's primary routes are:
The Paterson route goes: inbound (Eastbound) primary route on Broadway from its Southwest corner with Washington Street (one block East of Main Street), Paterson; continuing on Broadway as changes name to Martin Luther King Jr. Way and the designation at the western terminus, which turns back into Broadway; crossing thePassaic River and all ofBergen County starting at the Paramus border where Broadway loses the name, as it becomes NJ HighwayRoute 4 (with a small detour to and from the northern bus stop near Entrance 10 to theWestfield Garden State Plaza mall inParamus during mall and theater operating hours except on Sundays), losing the designation Route 4 at the eastern terminus; merging withInterstate 95 and theGeorge Washington Bridge (over theHudson River) and approaches inFort Lee and Manhattan; toGeorge Washington Bridge Bus Terminal identical to NJT's #171 route; the outbound (Westbound) return route is very similar, but its last stop is one block West, on West Broadway at its five-way corner with Broadway and Main Street in Paterson. Buses traveling the Broadway route do not stop adjacent toEastside Park in Paterson (East of 32nd Street) becauseNJ Transit Bus 770 detours two blocks North on 11th Avenue from 33rd Street to 43rd Street and Paterson has not seen fit to post bus stop signs there; thus there are no bus stops at which to stop.[7]
The company rents space across Broadway fromBroadway Bus Terminal in Paterson and in Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) on 42nd Street and George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in Manhattan[7]
In addition to Spanish Transportation owned vehicles, numerous otherjitneys provide service inNorth Jersey, particularlyHudson County alongBergenline Avenue,Boulevard East, andPalisade Avenue.[8] Studies were conducted to better regulate and incorporate the jitney system, which has grown since 2000.[9][10][11][12] Legislation to regulate them has been introduced in theNew Jersey Legislature.[13][14][15]
Many jitneys, including some of those owned by Spanish Transportation, use local streets in the vicinity of thePABT, namely42nd Street, as a drop-off and pick-up point for passengers and parking, which has led to congestion and complaints.[16][17]
Spanish Transportation websiteArchived 9 December 2012; mostly in Spanish
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