CHERRY HILL, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — Midday riders on the Atlantic City Rail Line will have to get used to taking shuttle buses for the next month, effective Tuesday.
Instead of trains, NJ Transit said it’ll run shuttle buses on the line until March 13 for long-term track improvements. Between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm on weekdays, the buses will run in two legs: The regular Route 554 between Atlantic City and Lindenwold, and a special shuttle between Lindenwold and 30th Street Station. That would mean an hour-and-a-half trip by train would be twice as long by bus.
“What annoys me the most is that there are not shuttle buses all the way down. I believe you have to change at Lindenwold,” a rider named Louise at the Cherry Hill station told KYW Newsradio. “When they substituted the buses for the entire trip, that was bearable. This is not.”
As an alternative, NJ Transit said its regular bus route 551 offers express service between Philadelphia and Atlantic City.