Walter Rand Transportation Center | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Walter Rand Transportation Center entrance from Broadway
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| General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Broadway | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 527 Martin Luther King Boulevard Camden, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°56′35″N 75°7′11″W / 39.94306°N 75.11972°W / 39.94306; -75.11972 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit and Delaware River Port Authority | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms (River Line) 1island platform (PATCO) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 (River Line); 2 (PATCO) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bus routes |  NJ Transit Bus: 313, 315, 316, 317, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 412, 413, 418, 419, 450, 451, 452, 453, 457, 551 Greyhound Lines | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | SJTA: Pureland North South | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Paid parking nearby | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | June 7, 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt |
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The Walter Rand Transportation Center is a transportation hub located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Broadway in Camden, New Jersey. It is served by the River Line, New Jersey Transit buses and Greyhound intercity buses and also includes the Broadway station of the PATCO Speedline.
The Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) had its Broadway station near the site. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Bridge Line opened on June 7, 1936, with an underground Broadway station as its Camden terminus. After Camden Terminal closed in 1953, Broadway was the Camden terminus of the PRSL. PRSL service to Camden ended in 1965.
The Bridge Line was temporarily closed on December 28, 1968 for conversion into the PATCO Speedline.[4] The Lindenwold–City Hall segment, including Broadway, reopened on January 4, 1969.[5]
The surface-level bus transfer center opened on May 17, 1989 as Camden Transportation Center and was renamed in 1994 for Walter Rand, a former New Jersey State Senator, who specialized in transportation issues while serving in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. River Line service began on March 15, 2004.
The station is the planned northern terminus of the Glassboro–Camden Line, an 18-mile (28.97 km) diesel multiple unit (DMU) light rail system projected for completion in 2028.[1]
In October 2021, NJ Transit announced plans to replace the facility with a new one, awarding a contract to conduct conceptual design, preliminary and final engineering and construction assistance services to HNTB.[6]
| G Ground level |
Street | Station house, buses |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Southbound | ← River Line toward Entertainment Center (Cooper Street–Rutgers University) | |
| Northbound | → River Line toward Trenton (36th Street) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| M | Mezzanine | PATCO faregates |
| P Platform level |
Westbound | ← PATCO Speedline toward 15–16th & Locust (City Hall) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Eastbound | → PATCO Speedline toward Lindenwold (Ferry Avenue) → | |
The transportation center is served by several New Jersey Transit bus routes 313, 315, 316, 317, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 412, 413, 418, 419, 450, 451, 452, 453, 457 and 551.
It is also served by Greyhound Lines and a South Jersey Transportation Authority shuttle to the Pureland Industrial Complex.
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
