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5/11/2026
Port Authority Transit Corp. (PATCO) late last week opened its new operations control center in Lindenwold, New Jersey.
The $19.4 million facility serves as the central hub for monitoring and managing PATCO’s operations, communications, customer service coordination and incident response. The center also will be used to oversee the entire transit-rail system, which features 14 stations and serves 5.9 million riders annually between southern New Jersey and Philadelphia.
"In many ways, this facility is the nerve center of the system," said PATCO General Manager John Rink in a press release. "Every train movement, communication and operational decision runs through this building."
The new center features a modern operations control room for dispatching and rail operations oversight, improved communications and monitoring systems, and consolidated workspace for multiple PATCO transit departments.
The facility is designed to support the passenger railroad’s continued modernization efforts and future system enhancements while improving coordination between operations, maintenance, customer service and response personnel, PATCO officials said.
The new center replaces the original center tower operations facility in Camden, New Jersey, that dates back to PATCO’s opening in 1969. The center tower now will serve as a secondary operations center.