Bee-Line Bus System

The system's 64 routes are mostly concentrated in the more urban southern portion of the county, with the cities of Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and Yonkers receiving a high frequency of service. White Plains, the county seat and most centrally located city, is a major transportation hub with many routes converging on the city's TransCenter.

Service in the northern portion of Westchester is sparse and is concentrated near slightly populated areas such as Mount Kisco, Ossining, or Peekskill. Areas such as Lewisboro, North Salem, and Pound Ridge receive paratransit service only. During the school year, special bus routes also operate. All but the county's smallest, most rural communities have at least rush hour service.[4]

Because Westchester County borders on the New York City borough of the Bronx, many of the Bee-Line's routes operate into the Bronx, offering Westchester residents connections to MTA New York City Transit buses and subways; at least one Bee-Line route connects to every subway line serving in the Bronx. The Bee-Line System also operates an express route, the BxM4C from White Plains, Greenburgh, Hartsdale, Scarsdale, and Yonkers along Central Park Avenue to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (return trips operate on Madison Avenue within Manhattan).

Bee-Line operates mostly closed-door service in the Bronx (local service is not provided solely for travel within the Bronx; appropriate MTA Regional Bus Operations service must be used instead). The only exceptions are:

• Route 8, which terminates at the College of Mount Saint Vincent on the Bronx/Yonkers border;
• Routes 40, 41, 42 and 43, which run along White Plains Road north of the Wakefield – 241st Street subway terminal;
• Route 45, which serves the Pelham Bay Park subway terminal, the Pelham Bay and Split Rock Golf Course, and the Bartow-Pell Mansion;
• Route 54, which runs on Mundy Lane along the Bronx/Mount Vernon border, since no other bus routes travel entirely through these areas;
• and Routes 60 and 61, which run along US Route 1 (East Fordham and Boston roads in the Bronx).

In addition, Route 12 (Armonk-Purchase-White Plains) briefly enters Greenwich, Connecticut along King Street, in which it makes stops in Greenwich and Rye Brook, New York along the New York/Connecticut border; Route 77 enters Putnam County to serve the US Route 6 corridor between Mahopac and Carmel; and Route 16 briefly enters Putnam County to serve the Mahopac Village Centre.[4]

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

Fleet numbers	Year	Photo	Manufacturer	Model	Length	Width	Powertrain	Notes
116-136 (21 total) (14 active)	2004-2005		Orion Bus Industries	Orion V 05.505	32 ft (9.8 m)	96 in (2.4 m)	Detroit Diesel Series 50 EGR Allison B400R	Used on shuttle loop, bus-to-rail shuttles, and low-ridership routes.
601-704 (104 total) (103 active)	2006			Orion V 05.501	40 ft (12 m)	102 in (2.6 m)	Cummins ISM Allison B400R
201-204 (4 total) (all active)				Orion VII OG HEV 07.501			Cummins ISB BAE Systems HybriDrive
801-827 (27 total) (27 active)	2008			Orion V 05.501			Cummins ISL Allison B400R	Suburban-spec buses Last diesel Orion V buses produced. Originally part of a 30 bus order which included units #828-830, however those units were retired from service in 2012 and were sold off to another Transit Authority in Maine.
205-299 (95 total) (all active)	2009		North American Bus Industries	40-LFW HEV			Cummins ISB Allison EP40 Hybrid System
301-378 (78 total) (77 active)	2018-2019		New Flyer Industries	Xcelsior XDE60 articulated	60 ft (18 m)		Cummins L9 BAE Systems Hybridrive	350 retired in July 2021 following a collision.[10]
141-144 (4 delivered and active)	2021		New Flyer Industries	Xcelsior XE35	35 ft (11 m)		Siemens HV1DB2016 Siemens ELFA2	First electric buses in the fleet
145-146 (2 active)	2021		New Flyer Industries	Xcelsior XE40	40 ft (12 m)
398-463 (3 delivered, 1 active)	2021		New Flyer Industries	Xcelsior XDE40

In October 2004, then-Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano launched a month-long celebration of local history by unveiling the top 15 winning names, which were applied on all of the 2002 Orion 05.505 buses. From 2005 to January 2012, these buses each bore the name of a person, place, or thing that played a role in the development of Westchester County.

In February 2020, it was announced that announced that Westchester County's Bee-Line Bus fleet would be expanding with 78 hybrid-electric 60-foot buses (all delivered by summer 2020), 106 hybrid-electric 40-foot buses and two 40-foot battery-electric buses - all built by New Flyer Industries - under a plan to have the entire transit bus fleet running on either fully electric or diesel-electric hybrid technology by 2025. As of July 2020, 40 40-foot diesel-electric buses and two 40-foot battery-electric are planned to be delivered between 2021 and 2025. Four 35-foot battery-electric buses are also planned to be delivered, totaling 6 battery-electric buses by 2025.[15][16][17]