Bee-Line Bus System
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Bee-Line #212 arrives in Yonkers from the Tuckahoe train station, due south to the county line.
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| Slogan | The Way To Go |
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| Parent | Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation |
| Founded | May 1, 1978 |
| Headquarters | 100 East 1 Street, 9th Floor Mt. Vernon, NY 10550 |
| Locale | Westchester County, New York |
| Service area | Westchester County, northern Bronx County, New York County, and southeastern Putnam County part of Fairfield County (Route 12) |
| Service type | Local, express, bus-to-rail shuttle buses |
| Routes | 59 |
| Fleet | 329 fixed route 91 paratransit |
| Daily ridership | 111,316 (2013) |
| Fuel type | Diesel, Diesel-electric hybrid |
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| Chief executive | Jay Pisco, P.E., Commissioner |
| Website | Bee-Line Bus System |
The Bee-Line Bus 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. It 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. 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.
The system's 60 routes are mostly concentrated in the more urban southern portion of the county, with more sparse service in the northern part of the county, with service concentrated near its slightly populated areas such as Mount Kisco, Ossining, or Peekskill, with paratransit service only in areas such as eastern Bedford, Lewisboro, North Salem, and Pound Ridge. White Plains, the county seat and most centrally located city, is a major transportation hub, with many routes converging on the city's TransCenter. Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and Yonkers, the other major cities of the county (all located at the southern end), are the best served. All but the county's smallest, most rural communities have at least rush hour service.
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