Sept. 03, 2009

Schedules on some Bee-Line buses will change on Tuesday, September 8 – including a route extension to Southern Westchester Executive Park in Yonkers – in response to changes in ridership patterns.

“We are being very proactive in extending bus service to meet the growing transportation needs of workers at the Hampton Inn, Residence Inn and the medical facilities that are moving to the park,” said county Transportation Commissioner Lawrence C. Salley. 

Route 2 is being extended weekdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. to accommodate hundreds of new jobs emerging in the park.  Half of the cost to extend the route is being paid for by the Federal Transit Administration under a Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC) grant.  Currently, the Route 2 starts at the W. 242nd Street subway station in the Bronx and ends on DeHaven Drive in the Tudor Woods area of Yonkers.  The extension will take the bus route past St. John’s Hospital, onto Executive Boulevard and through the business area.

Bee-Line schedule changes are routinely made three times a year to reflect riders’ requests for schedule changes, the needs of the county’s business community to get employees to work and the need to make the bus service operate as efficiently as possible.

Other bus schedules that will be changing on Tuesday include:

• Route 8 weekday trips will start earlier to make better connections to Route BxM4C, the express bus to Manhattan.
• The last Route 32 weekday trip will be extended to the Yonkers Metro-North train station.
• Route 45 will have a trip extended on weekday mornings to meet passenger demand at the Pelham Bay subway station in the Bronx.
• Route 75, 91 and 92 seasonal service to Playland will end on Labor Day.

New bus schedules are onboard all Bee-Line buses now.  Riders can also get one mailed to them by calling the Bee-Line hotline at (914) 813-7777 or go to www.westchestergov.com/beelinebus for schedule information.