Putnam Transit

Putnam Transit

Putnam Transit #156 operates through Brewster on the PT 1 line to Putnam Lake.
Parent	Putnam County Department of Planning, Development, and Public Transportation
Headquarters	841 Fair Street Carmel, NY 10512
Locale	Putnam County, New York
Service area	Eastern Putnam County (Cold Spring seasonally)
Service type	Local bus service
Routes	4 (5 during summer months)
Fleet	14 fixed route 9 paratransit[1] (2009 figures)
Daily ridership	621 (weekday) 351 (Saturday)[1]
Operator	First Transit
Chief executive	John Lynch (commissioner) Karen McKinley (general manager)
Web site	PART home page

Putnam Transit is the provider of bus transit in Putnam County, New York. An agency of the Putnam County government, Putnam Transit came into service in the mid-1970s as a startup system in the wake of growing suburbanization of Putnam County and rising gas prices.

Vehicles and routes are owned by Putnam County, and service is provided under contract to the county by First Transit.

Routes

Putnam Transit currently operates four year-round routes, all of which meet at various points during the day at Putnam Plaza, a strip mall in the county seat of Carmel. There is also a seasonal tourist trolley service in Cold Spring. All routes run Monday-Saturday, unless otherwise noted.

Route	Terminal	Major streets traveled	Hours of service
PT 1 (blue)	Putnam Lake	Route 6, North Brewster Road, Doansburg Road	Weekdays 5AM-7PM Saturdays 8AM-4PM
PT 2 (brown)	Jefferson Valley Jefferson Valley Mall	Route 6, Route 6N	Weekdays 7AM-7PM Saturdays 8AM-4PM
PT 3 (yellow)	Patterson	Route 312, Route 311, Fair Street	Weekdays 8AM-5PM No Saturday service
PT 5 (red)	Carmel Route 52 and Ludingtonville Road	Route 52, Terry Hill Road	Weekdays 5AM-8PM Saturdays 8AM-5PM
Cold Spring Trolley	Cold Spring-Nelsonville-Garrison Loop		Summer service only Friday-Sunday, 11AM-5PM

Putnam Transit also operates the ADA-mandated paratransit service for those unable to use regular route service due to disabilities, as well as pupil transportation service using yellow school buses. Until the end of 2006, a fifth route (PART 4) ran three days a week from Carmel to Jefferson Valley Mall, Cortlandt Town Center, then continuing on Route 9 through western Putnam County and then serving the commercial strip on that route in southern Dutchess County before ending at Poughkeepsie Galleria. With the discontinuing of the PART 4, western Putnam County was left without local transit service (except for the seasonal Cold Spring trolley).

Connections

PART has connection points with several transit agencies from adjacent areas.

• Bee-Line Bus System: PT 2 terminates at Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights, connecting with Bee-Line routes 12 and 16. PART buses also meet buses on Bee-Line route 77, an express route from White Plains to Mahopac.
• Housatonic Area Regional Transit: PT 1 connects with, depending on time of day, HART's Danbury-Brewster shuttle or HART route 3 in Brewster.
• Metro-North Railroad connections can be made via PT 1 at Brewster or PT 3 at Patterson.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} NTD Program filing for Putnam County Transit, 2009

External links

• Putnam Transit Homepage
• System Map
• Bus Schedules