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New York's second-largest fleet of buses is offering free rides for the summer in Westchester County for the third consecutive year.. Starting July 1, you can hop on a Bee-Line bus without having ...
From Nov. 19 through Nov. 27, and from Dec. 7 through Dec. 26, there will be no charge for riding a Bee-Line bus or using the ParaTransit service. Westchester Bee-Line bus fares free for upcoming ...
By 2024, MetroCard will be discontinued and all Bee-Line passengers will then use OMNY. The Reduced-Fare MetroCard Program will also be converted over to OMNY." [9] For certain periods during the summer and winter of 2022, the buses were fare-free. [10] As of the summer of 2023, buses are fare free until Labor Day 2023.
As part of a pilot program by the MTA to make five bus routes free (one in each borough), the B60, Bx18, M116, Q4, and S46/96 were selected as fare-free routes in July 2023. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] The pilot program would last six to twelve months and buses would display a "Fare Free" sign, similar to the one used on the Q70 . [ 87 ]
In 2021, the Brockton Area Transit Authority ran a pilot program of free public transit on summer weekends in hopes of regaining ridership lost over the course of the COVID pandemic. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] From April 26, 2021, until June 30, 2023, the Franklin Regional Transit Authority ran its fixed bus routes fare-free using COVID-19 relief funding.
The cost of providing paratransit service is considerably higher than traditional fixed-route bus service, with Maryland's Mobility service reporting per-passenger costs of over $40 per trip in 2010. [29] Paratransit ridership growth of more than 10% per year was reported in the District of Columbia metropolitan area for 2006 through 2009.
Bracing for the Thanksgiving crush, Westchester has added 60 parking spots at Westchester County Airport to handle the expected demand from holiday travelers. But even that might not be enough.
It was the largest privately owned public benefits corporation ambulance and paratransit service in the Tri-State Area Transcare - Transcare EMS operated ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics and held emergency response 911 contracts in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.