Liberty Lines Transit, Inc.

Liberty Lines Transit, Inc. is a contract operator of the Bee-Line Bus System of Westchester County, New York and a former operator of contract service to the New York City Department of Transportation. The company's headquarters are located in Yonkers, New York. It currently operates 344 vehicles, all similar to the one pictured on the top right and all owned by Westchester County.

Liberty Lines, from 1953 to 2004, also operated express bus service from the Bronx and Yonkers to Manhattan, under the Liberty Lines Express brand. This service is now run by MTA Bus.

Those routes were:
*BxM1 East Midtown Manhattan - Riverdale
*BxM2 West Midtown Manhattan - Riverdale
*BxM3 Midtown Manhattan - Getty Square, Westchester, via Bronx
*BxM4A Midtown Manhattan - Bedford Park
*BxM4B Midtown Manhattan - Woodlawn
*BxM11 Midtown Manhattan - Wakefield
*BxM18 Financial District, Manhattan - Riverdale

The branding was similar to the bus pictured to the right on the bottom.

References

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041204181638/http://www.libertylines.com/express.htm Liberty Lines Express] (via the Internet Archive)

A Liberty Lines bus is featured in quite a few scenes in 1984's Moscow on the Hudson. It is used to transport a Russian circus company around NYC, especially to Bloomingdales where Robin Williams' character defects.

External links

* [http://www.libertylines.com/ Liberty Lines]
* [http://beelinebus.westchestergov.com/ Bee-Line Bus System]