Our office is on this side of the river. So is your car.

Hoboken Terminal

Hudson Place, on the waterfront

Trains, PATH, the light rail and the ferries all leave from the same building, so everything arriving in Hoboken arrives here. The forecourt belongs to the buses, and we meet on Hudson Place or a block up River Street instead.

Exchange Place and Paulus Hook

Jersey City waterfront

The PATH station sits under a plaza and the ferry pier is a short walk from it, and neither has a kerb of its own. A named cross street on Hudson Street or Montgomery beats the name of a plaza every time.

Newark Penn Station

Raymond Plaza, Newark

Two sides, Raymond Plaza West and Raymond Plaza East, and choosing the wrong one is a walk around the whole building with the bags. Say which side when you book, because a chauffeured car does not wait on the taxi rank.

Secaucus Junction

The Meadowlands, off Route 3

Where almost every New Jersey line meets the Northeast Corridor, standing on its own in the marsh with nothing around it. That makes the kerb easy to reach and hard to describe, so we agree the door before the day.

MetLife Stadium

East Rutherford, off Route 120

Eighty thousand people leave one complex through the same few ramps onto Route 120 and the Turnpike. A car sitting in the lot is a car that cannot move, so we name a pickup outside the complex and you are away while the lots are still draining.

Port Imperial and the ferry piers

Weehawken, under the helix

Ferries run across to Manhattan all day and the Lincoln Tunnel helix curls directly above the pier. The drop is easy; the traffic is on the helix, which is why an evening pickup here is timed against the tunnel rather than the boat.

The Turnpike and the Parkway

The two spines, north to south

Through the north the Turnpike splits in two, the inner roadway for cars and the outer carrying the trucks and coaches, while the Parkway has low overpasses and limits on commercial traffic. A sedan and a bus can leave the same address on different roads, which is why a group is timed separately.

Short Hills and the Route 24 corridor

Millburn and Springfield

The mall has entrances a long way apart and the offices behind it sit off their own driveways. A named door beats a postcode here, and after four in the afternoon it is the corridor out to Route 24 that is slow rather than the town.

Montclair and Ridgewood

Bloomfield Avenue and the Bergen line

Two downtowns built around a station and one main street each: steep, narrow side roads in Montclair, metered kerbs the length of Ridgewood. We take a corner off the main street and you are moving immediately.

Princeton, and Princeton Junction

Mercer County, off Route 1

They are not the same place. The Junction is in West Windsor, a few miles from the university and joined to it by a shuttle. Saying which of the two you mean saves an hour at the wrong end of the day.