NJ Transit App. You can buy bud and train tickets on it.

Yep. Ever since Covid this is exclusively how I’ve been buying my NJ Transit monthly bus tickets. Super convenient.

>You can buy bud

...that's so progressive!

NJ is first again 🥇

lol

Cash only on board the bus towards NYC, or buy tickets on the NJTransit app (accepts credit/debit and Apple/Google pay/PayPal), or get paper tickets from a ticket vending machine at major stops (Old Bridge P&R has them). You must have a paper or app ticket when returning from NYC, cash is not accepted outbound.

You’re probably going to the Old Bridge Park&Ride, that’s $12 one way, 9 zones interstate, full price one way tix never expire until activated. That’s the last stop before NYC. You can’t just tap a card like NYC because unlike NYC and its massive one fare zone, NJ has wayyyy more zones, roughly correlating with distance.

There’s discounted 10-trip and 20-trip “flex” bundles of one-way tickets, the 10-trip tickets are 15% off and valid for 20 days from purchase, the 20-trip tickets are 25% off and valid 30 days from purchase. Monthly passes are for unlimited travel in a calendar month.

Wave to the bus to signal for it to stop and pick you up. Activate the pre purchased ticket in the app and show it to the driver/scan with the QR reader. PABT is the last stop.

When returning, pay attention to the scheduled departure time and number (139) of your bus. On weekday afternoons, not every 139 bus will stop at Old Bridge P&R. Check the box in the schedule for accurate departure gates or talk to information at PABT. Weekends/holidays are much more straightforward, everything is a local and will stop at Old Bridge (press the stop button before then, anyway)

Schedule: https://content.njtransit.com/pdf/schedules/bus/139

Thanks so much!!!

Thank you!

NJTRANSIT: The Way To Go (Higher)

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

Lol whoops!

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.