DeCamp Bus Lines

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DeCamp Bus Lines
DeCamp logo.png
MCI D4500CT Route 33.jpg
Ex-DeCamp #17079 turning to enter PABT on Former Route 33. This bus has returned to New Jersey Transit.
Founded1870
Headquarters
Locale Northern New Jersey
Service area Essex and Passaic Counties, New Jersey
Service typeCharter
Fleet30
Daily ridership7282 [1] (weekday, 2006)
Chief executiveGary Pard [1]
Website DeCamp.com

DeCamp Bus Lines is an apportioned[ definition needed ] bus company serving Essex County, New Jersey and Passaic County, New Jersey, with charter services. Until 2023, DeCamp also operated commuter line-run services to and from Manhattan. [2]

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History

The family-run business was started as a stage-coach company, in 1870. [3]

COVID-19 pandemic

All service was suspended on March 25, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey. [4]

It resumed in June, but was again curtailed on August 7, 2020, due to low unsustainable ridership. [5] [6]

In May 2021, DeCamp began to resume operations once again starting with charter services. On June 14, 2021, commuter services also resumed on a limited weekday schedule. [7] [8]

On March 20, 2023, DeCamp announced it would cease operating its commuter services lines after April 7, citing unsustainably low ridership because many of their former customers were now working from home instead of commuting to Midtown Manhattan. [9]

Former commuter routes

There were no fixed stops other than terminals, buses could hail to board; riders could request a stop to exit. Local passengers within New Jersey were not carried on any line except for the 32. According to the company it normally carried up to 7,000 passengers per day. However these numbers dropped after the COVID-19 pandemic.

While all lines were indefinitely and temporarily suspended at the onset of the pandemic, the 32 and 88 lines were never brought back after commuter services were brought back. As such, these routes were unofficially discontinued since 2020, and permanently with the decision by DeCamp to drop the commuter routes. All other routes were brought back to some extent, and permanently discontinued in April 2023. Some of the routes were rebranded and operated under New Jersey Transit. Buses that NJT owned were sent back.

RouteTerminal AViaTerminal B
32
(weekdays only)
Port Authority Bus Terminal Paterson Plank Road
Ridge Road
Belleville Turnpike
Centre Street
Kingsland Street
Nutley
Kingsland Street and Darling Avenue
33Port Authority Bus Terminal (full-time)
Lower Manhattan
Wall Street (rush hour service inbound only)
Passaic Avenue
Broad Street or Grove Street
Bloomfield Avenue
W. Caldwell or Montclair
Essex Mall
44Port Authority Bus TerminalRidge Road
Belleville Turnpike
Heller Parkway/Franklin Street
Bloomfield
Franklin Street and Montgomery Street
66
(C, MU, and R weekdays only)
Route 3
Valley Road
Park Street
Montclair State University (some trips)
Harrison Avenue
Eagle Rock Avenue (R trips only)
Prospect Avenue (R trips only)
W. Orange
Mississippi Loop (full-time)
Montclair
Park Street and Bloomfield Avenue OR Watchung Plaza (some trips)
W. Orange
Crown View Apartments (CV trips only)
W. Caldwell
Essex Mall (R trips only)
88
(weekdays only)
Broad Street
Prospect Street
Orange
Central Avenue and
Evergreen Place OR Scotland Road
99
(rush hours only)
Ridge Road/Kearny Avenue/Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard Harrison
Rodgers Boulevard and Harrison Avenue

Map

Map of Former DeCamp Routes, 2019 Decampbusmap.jpg
Map of Former DeCamp Routes, 2019

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