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StuMaximuss t1_jd2fjj9 wrote

Good fucking riddance. Decamp was a shitty bus company that had a monopoly where NJT was letting them operate because the family that owned them had been in the area doing business since covered wagon days. The buses were never on time in the decade plus that I lived in Bloomfield, I was late so many times because buses just wouldn’t show up or would be so packed that they’d just pass me by. I had to commute on BICYCLE to the nearest area (Clifton) to have access to more buses and not lose my job (happened way more than a few times over the years I lived there).

Fuck em. Now NJT will expand in to those areas, allow bulk monthly sales that decamp did NOT. Their multi packs EXPIRED within a few month earning them bigger profits if you had weeks between freelance jobs like I did.

So glad to hear they’re done, all those areas it served will be better off with NJT.

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throw495887 t1_jd3eo7k wrote

Please contact all your state reps, the governor, and NJ Transit. NJT taking over these routes is not a given. They are already in rough financial shape after the pandemic. We need to make this a political issue.

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StuMaximuss t1_jd5pad9 wrote

It will be a political issue when all of central Bloomfield moves away. Lots of apartment units quite a few commuters all along those cursed routes.

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mushroomsandroses t1_jdajubq wrote

Yeah, my experience with DeCamp included a lot of waiting for late or missed buses in the dingy basement of Port Authority.

And that one time we had a driver who had to be either severely sleep-deprived or under the influence from the way he was driving. Fucking unsettling.

They were better than not being able to go into New York at all, but by god did I hate having to rely on them.

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