According to CBS Philadelphia, the service will allow customers to make an appointment, and within 24 hours they will get a new cell phone and learn how to set it up for free.
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During the weekend of the papal visit, trains will not be operating regular weekend service on either the Atlantic City Rail Line or the River Line, NJ TRANSIT said. The AC Line will be express between Atlantic City and Philadelphia with no interim stops.
“This will be very special event for our community, especially for those who are unable to make it to Philadelphia”, ArtsQuest CEO and President Kassie Hilgert said in the release.
Tickets go on sale Saturday.
The $10 passes will be needed to ride the Norristown High Speed Line and trolley routes 101 and 102 during the September 26-27 visit.
A total of 7,500 tickets will be sold.
– Limited bus service will run along the Atlantic City Rail Line corridor on Saturday and Sunday for those who use stations in between Atlantic City and Philadelphia. No tickets will be available for purchase the day of the event, and monthly tickets will not work. The United Nations General Assembly also will meet in New York that week, which is expected to create travel issues in the city. Some, including NJ Transit director Ronnie Hakim, made the entire 4.5-mile trek from Camden to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. River LineThe River Line will operate on a 15 minute schedule on September 26th and 27th in both directions between Trenton and Walter Rand. Once the Ben Franklin Bridge closes to vehicular traffic, all Philadelphia bus routes will be truncated at the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden but will remain on schedule for trips outbound from the Camden area.
Officials also caution there will be increased volume on many surrounding roadways, including I-295; routes 38, 42, 45, 47, 55, 70, 73, 90, 130, 168 and 322, as well as the New Jersey Turnpike and Atlantic City Expressway.
“You don’t need to be a traffic engineer to know we’re going to have traffic jams in New Jersey”, said Sam Schwartz, a traffic engineer and former New York City traffic commissioner.
A chart at the press conference noted that the estimated 100,000 to 250,000 private cars would be “equivalent [to] 110 to 430 lane miles of bumper to bumper traffic each day”.
NJDOT will close roads feeding into the Ben Franklin Bridge when it is closed. “Some people just ignore us completely, while others are just drawn to the image itself, and they have to come over and touch it”. The bridge, which is to be closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, is about a mile and a half long and includes 135 feet of steep incline.
Given the possibility that not all buses will have registered and be able to find parking spots in Camden, officials said it was conceivable that they would have to park outside Camden, adding to the distance people would have to walk.
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“This is not an easy hike”.
