ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION AND INDEPENDENT
AUTHORITIES COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 5134
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: MARCH 10, 2025
The Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities
Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments
Assembly Bill No. 5134.
As amended and reported, this bill requires an owner or operator
of certain autobuses to develop a route schedule for each autobus
providing fixed route service and to publish the route schedule on
the website of the owner or operator and at each transportation
facility, station, stop, or stand where the autobus provides fixed
route service. The term “autobus” applies to, with certain limited
exceptions, a privately-owned autobus operated in intrastate or
interstate business over the public highways in this State for the
transportation of not more than 40 passengers for hire.
The owner or operator of a ferry service is required to post a
route schedule, along with the table of rates, in a manner that is
visible to passengers entering the boat and on the website of the
owner or operator of the ferry.
The bill also requires the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey (PANYNJ) and the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA)
to develop and publish route schedules for each commuter railroad
route or Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) route
operated by the respective agency at each transportation facility,
station, stop, or stand providing service to the route and on the
agency’s website.
Under the bill, the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit)
is required to develop and publish route schedules for each
motorbus regular route service route, rail passenger service route, or
ferry passenger service route that it operates at each transportation
facility and station providing service to the route and on NJ
Transit’s website.
This bill requires an owner or operator of ferries, certain owners
or operators of autobuses, NJ Transit, the PANYNJ, and the DRPA
to update their respective websites with any changes to a route
schedule and to post the changes in the same manner as the original 2
route schedules were posted, within 30 days of the changes taking
effect.
COMMITTEE AMENDMEN TS:
The committee amendments remove the provision that requires NJ
Transit to publish route schedules and changes to route schedules for
each motorbus regular route service route, rail passenger service
route, or ferry passenger service route that it operates at
transportation stops and stands providing service to the route.