DeCamp ending commuter buses to and from New York City for North Jersey routes

After 153 years of ferrying commuters from Montclair to Manhattan, DeCamp bus lines will cease all commuter service effective April 7, said Jonathan DeCamp, the company's chief operating officer.

The oldest private bus company in the state, DeCamp will continue to operate charter and shuttle buses, including service to Atlantic City, he said.

With buses to New York operating at only 20% or less of pre-COVID levels, and state and federal pandemic subsidies ending, the commuting part of the business is no longer sustainable, DeCamp said.

Before the pandemic, the line carried 6,500 to 7,000 a day into Manhattan.

"It was exactly three years ago when we stopped service because of the pandemic," he said. "The commuting landscape literally changed overnight."