Short Line (bus company)

Infobox Bus transit
name = Short Line
(Hudson Transit Lines/
Hudson Transit Corporation/
Chenango Valley Bus Lines)

logo_size = 208

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image_size = 250px
image_caption = #70422 (owned by the Orange County DOT) operates Schedule #748 (Rhinebeck-Newburgh-Woodbury Common-New York).
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parent = Coach USA
founded = 1922
headquarters = Hudson Transit Lines and Corporation:
4 Leisure Lane
Mahwah, NJ 07430
Chenango Valley Bus:
105 Chenango Street
Binghamton, NY 13901
locale = New York
service_area = Greater New York, Southern Tier, Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes
service_type = Local, long-distance, contract, and charter bus service
alliance = Trailways and Greyhound
(Southern Tier only)
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hubs = 5 (PABT, Middletown, Monticello, Newburgh, and Binghamton)
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lounge =
fleet = 233 [ [http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=13944&original_query_string=SHORTLINE%20BUS%20LINES SAFERSYS Hudson Transit Lines statistics] ] [ [http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=200615&original_query_string=HUDSON%20TRANSIT%20CORPORATION SAFERSYS Hudson Transit Corporation statistics] ] [ [http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=154670&original_query_string=CHENANGO%20VALLEY%20BUSLINES%20INC SAFERSYS Chenango Valley statistics] ]
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operator = Hudson Transit Lines and Corporation
Chenango Valley Bus Lines
ceo = George Grieve
website = [http://www.coachusa.com/shortline Coach USA ShortLine]

Short Line, a brand name for three different Coach USA companies, Hudson Transit Lines, Hudson Transit Corporation, and Chenango Valley Bus Lines, is a bus service servicing the southern portion of New York, with various forms of service.

ervice types

Commuter bus service

Within the New York metropolitan area, ShortLine operates a number of commuter lines to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, servicing various park-rides in Rockland and Orange counties in New York, and Bergen County, New Jersey, with connections on Orange County services available to other routes in Middletown and Newburgh. Also, under contract to the New York State Department of Transportation and Rockland County Department of Public Transportation, ShortLine provides commuter bus service from Orange and Rockland Counties to White Plains and njt-sta|Tarrytown|type=MNRR. [http://www.coachusa.com/CoachUsaAssets/files/98/owl.pdf]

Local bus service

In addition to commuter bus service, ShortLine also provides local bus service in Orange and Sullivan counties, with service radiating from terminals in Middletown, Newburgh, and Monticello, with some service in Orange County provided by that county.

Intercity bus service

In the Southern Tier and throughout the New York metropolitan area, ShortLine provides service to and from major colleges and universities in the region, such as Cornell University, SUNY Alfred, SUNY Binghamton, and SUNY Albany, as well as towns along the Quickway and I-84 corridor such as Middletown, Binghamton, Port Jervis and Ithaca in New York, and Pike County in Pennsylvania at the edge of the New York metropolitan area, running to and from points around New York City and Long Island. Connections with Greyhound and Trailways buses are available in Binghamton.

ee also

*Greyhound Lines - competing and interline carrier throughout New York State
*Trailways of New York - competing and interline carrier in the Southern Tier region

References

External links

* [http://www.coachusa.com/shortline ShortLine home page]