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Bee-Line Bus System

The Westchester County Bee-Line System, branded on the buses in lowercase as the bee-line system, is a bus system serving Westchester County, New York. The system is owned by the county's Department of Public Works and Transportation.

Parent

Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation

May 1, 1978

100 East First Street, 9th Floor
Mount Vernon, NY 10550

Local, Limited, express,shuttle buses

64

327 fixed route
91 paratransit

111,316 (2013) [1]

Hugh J. Greechan, Jr., P.E., Commissioner

History[edit]

The system was founded on May 1, 1978, by the then Westchester County Department of Transportation to consolidate the bus system with thirteen private bus companies and has been given control over the buses, fare structure, routes, and services. By the 1980s, the bus system had an identity problem in who was providing the service. On May 19, 1987, WCDOT officially named the bus service "The Bee-Line System" with a 'bee-in-flight' mascot drawn by cartoonist Jack Davis.[2][3]


The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation currently contracts out to two private bus companies to provide service in Westchester County and the surrounding counties: Yonkers-based Liberty Lines Transit, Inc., the main company that either bought out or obtained franchises from the other twelve bus companies over the years, operates buses on all but three bus routes; and Cortlandt Manor-based P.T.L.A. Enterprise, Inc., a small company that operates buses on routes 16, 18, and 31.

Routes 40, 41, 42 and 43, which run along north of the Wakefield – 241st Street subway terminal;

White Plains Road

Route 45, which serves the subway terminal, the Pelham Bay and Split Rock Golf Course, and the Bartow-Pell Mansion;

Pelham Bay Park

Route 54, which runs on Mundy Lane along the Bronx/Mount Vernon border, since no other bus routes travel entirely through these areas;

Routes 60 and 61, which run along (East Fordham and Boston roads in the Bronx).

US Route 1

Fleet[edit]

Active fleet[edit]

This roster only lists buses and shuttle vans used in fixed route service. Paratransit vehicles are not listed. All buses are wheelchair accessible.

Bee-Line Bus System

Bee-Line Roster as of 2002