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hopopo t1_j1j02m5 wrote

Reply to comment by remarkability in NJ transit bus tips into Manhattan by DaGabbagool

How would someone know what zone ticket person uses. Especially when going from Manhattan back home.

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remarkability t1_j1kx1dg wrote

That’s the difficult bit to figure out, but there’s a few ways.

  1. Look at the schedule PDF for the bus number you’re taking and there’s an abstract map of the route. The dashed lines indicate zone boundaries. Count the total number of zones you travel through and there you go. Find schedules on the app in schedules > printed timetables. Or online at the bottom of https://www.njtransit.com/bus-to in the “download PDF schedules” section.
  2. Or use the Rider Tools > Trip Planner in the app. Search for your start/end addresses on the date/time you want, then it has suggested trips and will tell you the number of zones for each leg.

I’d love for everything to be automatically calculated with a tap in/out card, but that’s not how it works now.

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