Station Layout and Services
Bay Street station is the first of six stations in the township of Montclair, located on Pine Street between Bloomfield Avenue (County Route 506) and Glenridge Avenue. The station has two high-level platforms to serve passengers on its two tracks. The platforms themselves are connected by a crossover bridge with elevators. Ticket vending machines have been recently installed at the station to sell tickets and because of this, passengers who wish to buy a ticket aboard the train must pay an extra $5 in addition to the actual fare for the ticket. Bay Street station has a 248-space parking garage, and a smaller lot a block away. Eight of those spots are handicapped accessible and are maintained by the Montclair Parking Authority. People who use this station's parking garage must pay $5 a day and $300 for six months to park. This does not apply on Sundays however, when parking is free.
Bay Street station is a major stop on the Montclair-Boonton Line, serving 32 trains on a daily basis. These include 21 departures to New York's Pennsylvania Station and eleven departures to Hoboken Terminal. Heading outbound from Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal, Bay Street also serves three departures to Hackettstown, three departures to Lake Hopatcong, four departures to Dover, two departures to Mount Olive and 23 departures to Montclair State University Station at Little Falls. Arriving trains include 22 from Penn Station, 13 from Hoboken, 24 from Montclair State University, two from Hackettstown, three from Mount Olive, two from Lake Hopatcong and one from Denville. Weekend service on the Montclair-Boonton also terminates here except on special holiday trains, in which cars go to Lake Hopatcong station. Regular weekend service runs ten times daily, serving Bay Street along with Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Watsessing Avenue and Newark Broad Street Station before heading to Hoboken.
New Jersey Transit also runs several bus routes near or at Bay Street station. The #11, which runs between Newark and Wayne, along with the #28 between Newark and Montclair State University, and the #29 to between Newark to Parsippany or West Caldwell along (Bloomfield Avenue). The township of Montclair operates a jitney on weekday evenings from Bay Street station to South Mountain Avenue at Bloomfield Avenue. The jitney costs $1.50 and monthly passes are available for riders.
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