masturbation; the lawsuit alleged most of the arrests are targeted at LGBT men who have not performed any wrongful acts. The Port Authority Police Department ended the practice in 2022. Companies The Port Authority Bus Terminal is served by the following lines: Commuter lines Academy Bus Coach USA Community Coach Rockland Coaches Short Line Suburban Trails Community Lines DeCamp Bus Lines Lakeland Bus Lines Martz Trailways New Jersey Transit (Routes 107-199) OurBus Spanish Transportation Trans-Bridge Lines Airport buses Olympia Trails to Newark Airport Intercity operators Adirondack Trailways C&J Coach Company (OurBus) Fullington Trailways Greyhound Lines Megabus OurBus Prime Peter Pan Bus Lines Short Line Sightseeing Gray Line New York The RIDE, nearby on the north side of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue Connecting transport Direct underground passageways connect the terminal with the of the New York City Subway at the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station complex. Several bus routes operated by New York City Bus, including the local buses and the Staten Island express buses, stop immediately outside the terminal. In the last decade, numerous jitney routes serving Hudson and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey pick up passengers inside the bus terminal or on the street outside the terminal. Dollar vans operated by Spanish Transportation to Paterson and Community Lines jitneys to Journal Square use platforms on the lower level. Routes to Bergenline Avenue/GWB Plaza, and Boulevard East depart from 42nd Street outside the bus terminal's North Wing. In 2011, a controversy arose when Megabus, a long-distance carrier using double-decker buses, with the permission of the New York City Department of Transportation, began to use the streets and sidewalk at the terminal. The director of the PANYNJ, citing safety, as well as other long-haul companies (which paid rent to use the terminal) citing unfair competitive advantage, were opposed to the permission to allow the company use of 41st Street directly beneath the connection between the two wings of the Port Authority. Despite these concerns and complaints, Megabus was initially permitted to stay. However, the permission was withdrawn later that year. Megabus now largely uses street-side stops near the Javits Center (for pickup) and Penn Station (for drop-off), except for a limited number of routes which use PABT. Capacity and overflow PABT is the gateway for most bus and jitney traffic entering Manhattan with more than 190,000 passengers on 6,000 bus trips made through the Lincoln Tunnel and