NJ Transit will take over service of the single route provided by Bayonne’s Broadway Bus company, which announced earlier this month it will close its doors Nov. 30.

Starting Dec. 1, NJ Transit will operate a new bus route, No. 12, that will follow the former Broadway Bus route along Broadway every half hour, which should improve the service that was being run every hour “give or take,” said Michael Kilcoyne, NJ Transit's senior vice president of surface transit and general manager of bus operations.

“We’ve been watching it for the last month and a half, two months — very, very light ridership,” Kilcoyne said at the agency’s monthly board meeting Nov. 12.

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“It’ll be a new line because there’s no way to combine it with other lines because they run pa

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