The Walter Rand Transportation Center is a

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located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Broadway in

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. It is served by the River Line, New Jersey Transit buses and

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intercity buses and also includes the Broadway station of the

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History

The

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(PRSL) had its Broadway station near the site. The

Philadelphia Rapid Transit The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1968. A private company, PTC was the successor to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT), in operation since 1 ...

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

. The Lindenwold–City Hall segment, including Broadway, reopened on January 4, 1969. The surface-level bus transfer center opened on May 17, 1989 as Camden Transportation Center and was renamed in 1994 for

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, a former

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, who specialized in transportation issues while serving in both houses of the

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. River Line service began on March 15, 2004. The station is the planned northern terminus of the

Glassboro–Camden Line The Glassboro–Camden Line (GCL) is a planned diesel multiple unit (DMU) light rail, light rail system to be located in South Jersey. At the northern terminus, the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden, New Jersey, Camden, it will conne ...

, an

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(DMU) light rail system projected for completion in 2028.

Train service

Bus service

The transportation center is served by several New Jersey Transit bus routes and

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. It is also served by

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and a

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shuttle to the

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Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: *

Cooper University Hospital Cooper University Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility located in Camden, New Jersey. The hospital formerly served as a clinical campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Medicine and Dentistry ...

Freedom Mortgage Pavilion The Freedom Mortgage Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheatre and indoor theater complex in Camden, New Jersey located in the Camden Waterfront entertainment district on the Delaware River across from Philadelphia. Since it opened in June 1995, th ...

Walt Whitman House The Walt Whitman House is a historic building in Camden, New Jersey, United States, which was the last residenceHaas, 141 of American poet Walt Whitman, in his declining years before his death. It is located at 330 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bou ...

References

External links

Broadway (PATCO)Greyhound Camden Terminal
{{PATCO PATCO Speedline stations in New Jersey River Line stations Buildings and structures in Camden, New Jersey Railway stations in the United States opened in 1936 Transit hubs serving New Jersey Transportation buildings and structures in Camden County, New Jersey Transportation in Camden, New Jersey NJ Transit bus stations Railway stations located underground in New Jersey