Free Ferry Bus Service (Currently not running due to covid-19)
The Free Ferry Bus Service provides two different routes to the Edgewater Ferry Landing one via Palisade Ave and the other via Anderson Avenue, offering an AM and PM Schedule. You can download these schedules by clicking the below link. In the event of bad weather, or other situations that may arise, you are urged to check our home page for messages and alerts, or you may call our office. Be sure to bookmark this web site for your convenience. We recommend signing up for Nixle to get text messages for cancellation and delay alerts. Nixle sign up can be found on the home page of this site.
The Fort Lee Parking Authority provides free bus transportation for our senior citizens. Our busses will take you to and from various shopping centers and malls throughout the area.
Free Seniors Medical Transport - By Appointment Only
On Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, service is provided for NON-EMERGENCY medical transportation to three hospitals, and doctors along the route, for senior citizens and handicapped residents who need to visit their doctors and/or three hospitals for special treatment, etc.
Holy Name Hospital - Monday & Friday Morning
These trips will go to Holy Name Hospital along Teaneck Road and will return on Teaneck Road back to Fort Lee. This trip will also include transportation to doctors within the Borough of Fort Lee and others along the route to Holy Name Hospital. The vehicle will pick up between 8:30 a.m. and 10:10 a.m.
Englewood Hospital - Monday & Friday Afternoon
These trips will go to Englewood Hospital along Engle Street and will return on Dean Street back to Fort Lee. This trip will also include transportation to doctors within the Borough of Fort Lee and along the route to Englewood Hospital. The vehicle will pick up between 1:00 p.m. and 2:10 p.m.
These trips will go to Hackensack Hospital and doctors within the Borough of Fort Lee only. The vehicle will pick up between 8:30 a.m. and 10:10 a.m. and then between 1:00 p.m. and 2:10 p.m.
On all trips, when the patient is ready to return to Fort Lee, they are to call from the receptionist's office of the hospital or doctor's office to the Parking Authority at 201-592-3500 ext. 1518. Transportation will then be dispatched to the location. For further information regarding schedule times and appointments, please call 201-592-3500 ext. 1518, Tuesday through Friday 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.; Mondays 8:30am-until 8pm.
Shoprite Tuesday Schedule
There will be two trips to Shoprite in Palisades Park leaving from the Richard and Catherine Nest Senior Center every Tuesday. To make reservations for Shoprite, you must call 201-592-3500 x1518, Monday through Friday 8:30am-4pm.
There will be only two trips to the malls every Thursday. To make reservations for the mall trips, you must call 201-592-3500 x1518, Monday through Friday 8:30am-4pm.
