Wayne-Route 23 (NJT Station)

Wayne-Route 23 (NJT Station)

The Wayne Route 23 Transit Center is a New Jersey Transit park-and-ride station in Wayne, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line that provides bus service to New York City and various other points in the area as well as Montclair-Boonton Line train service to New York, Hoboken, and intermediate points along the line between Hackettstown and Montclair State University. It is located off of the southbound lanes of New Jersey Route 23 on West Belt Road, near the interchange where Route 23, Interstate 80, and U.S. Route 46 meet, across from the Willowbrook Mall. The station opened in January 2008 and has 1,000 parking spaces. New Jersey Transit intends for this combined rail and bus station to become an "interceptor station," that will help relieve the habitual congestion at the West Belt Road Interchange, where the three major highways meet. In addition, the construction of the station was meant to also ease the congestion at what was then Route 23 Park & Ride, a bus depot on Route 23 North that has since been renamed Mother's Park & Ride, and the Willowbrook Mall Park & Ride; the now-Mother's site had limited parking while NJT was having trouble with overfull parking areas at Willowbrook.

The Wayne Township bus garage is located on the opposite side of Route 23. There has been a proposal to build a parking deck with another thousand spots and develop the land at the station.

In addition to Montclair-Boonton trains, the Transit Center is served by the following New Jersey Transit bus lines:

• 75 to Newark Penn Station and Butler
• 194 to Port Authority Bus Terminal and Butler/Newfoundland
• 198 to Port Authority Bus Terminal and William Paterson University
• 324 to Port Authority and Wayne Route 23
• 748 to Willowbrook Mall and Paterson