Davies and other NJ Transit consultants and officials presented four alternative plans Tuesday in an open house at Camden County College in Gloucester Township.
The plans would all get riders from Winslow Township to Camden and Philadelphia with varying levels of service and speed.
No cost estimates were presented, but officials have said the most complex alternatives could cost about $100 million. And a round-trip bus ticket could cost about $10.
The bus plans are proceeding as engineers continue to study the possibility of also building a $1.5 billion light-rail line between Glassboro and Camden.
Residents and commuters at the open house generally liked the idea of getting out of the current traffic on South Jersey's most congested roads.
Current bus service is often slow and unreliable, and during rush hours, drivers have to endure packed roads weaving through the dangerous interchange near Bellmawr where 42, I-295, and I-76 converge.
"I have to take the bus now, and if they could do this, it would be very helpful," said student Maria Diamatoukos, 22, of Collingswood, as she hurried to catch a bus from the campus Tuesday.
An engineering student, Anton Smirnov, 19, of Haddon Township, said his current daily commute requires a seven-minute PATCO train ride from Westmont to Lindenwold and a 30-minute bus trip from Lindenwold.
A fast bus service would be good, he said, "but I would prefer to see a rail system that would connect everything. I wish the U.S. could be more like Germany or Japan, with less cars and more trains."
Warren Strumpfer, a retired resident of Blackwood who frequently travels to Philadelphia, said he would like to have both the proposed rail line and the fast buses.
