Area residents may soon be able to board a New Jersey Transit Bus from Little Egg Harbor and go south to Atlantic City and as far north as New York City. The park and ride lot developed on Route 539 in Little Egg Harbor Township just southeast of Garden State Parkway Interchange 58 has opened after Ocean County engineers inspected it a week or so ago.

Retired New York Transit bus driver Craig Versheck of Little Egg Harbor has spent the last10 years, with his wife Debra, advocating for the park…