Suffolk Transit

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Suffolk Transit (or Suffolk County Transit) is the provider of bus services in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island in the United States and is an agency of the Suffolk County government. It was founded in 1980 as a county-run oversight and funding agency for a group of private contract operators which had previously provided such services on their own. While the physical maintnence and operation of the buses are provided by these providers, other matters ranging from bus purchases to route and schedule planning to fare rules are set by Suffolk Transit itself.

Though serving the entierity of Suffolk County, the one exception is the in Huntington in the northwestern part of the county where that town's private operator declined to join Suffolk Transit. Instead, Huntington took over that town's system which became Huntington Area Rapid Transit, or HART. Most of HART's routes do connect to both Suffolk Transit and MTA Long Island Bus and one can transfer between HART and Suffolk Transit fairly easily. In addition, the villages of Patchogue and Port Jefferson have also had their own local bus services.

[edit] Routes

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The following is a listing of routes run by Suffolk County Transit. At bus stops in the Suffolk County, the routes are prefixed with a "S" to signify "Suffolk County" to fall in line with other nomenclature used by the MTA, despite the fact that it has no ties to the MTA. There are several lines that do not have the "S" prefix (they are all routes with a suffix).

S1: Amityville Railroad Station to Halesite Fire Department House.
S20:
S23:
S25:
S27:
S29:
S31:
S33:
S35:
S40: Babylon-Patchogue Railroad Stations.
S41
S42
S45
S47
S54: Walt Whitman Mall to Patchogue Railroad Station.
S56:
S57:
S58: Huntington Square Mall to Riverhead County Center.
S59:
S60:
S61: Patchogue Railroad Station to Port Jefferson Ferry.
S62:
S63: Patchogue to Smith Haven Mall.
S66:
S68:
S69:
S71:
S76:
S90: Center Moriches to Riverhead County Center.
S92:
S94: Montauk Village to Montauk Point Lighthouse (Summer Shuttle).
1A: Amityville Loop (serves Amityville (including the railroad station), North Amityville, and Copiague (including Big Lots Shopping Center)).
1B: Tanner Park Senior Citizen Center in Copiague to Lindenhurst Railroad Station.
2A: Wheatley Heights Shopping Center in Wyandanch to South Shore Mall in Bay Shore.
2B: SUNY Farmingdale to Bay Shore.
3A: South Shore Mall in Bay Shore to Hauppauge.
3B: Gardiner Manor Plaza in Bay Shore to Hauppauge.
3C: US Federal Court Cohalan Court Complex in Central Islip to South Shore Mall in Bay Shore.
3D: Brentwood Railroad Station to Stony Brook Railroad Station.
5A: Port Jefferson Shopping Plaza to Artist Lake Shopping Center in Middle Island.
6A: Ronkonkoma Railroad Station to George Link Circle in Coram.
6B: Farmingville County Offices to Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove.
7A: Patchogue Railroad Station to Ronkonkoma Railroad Station.
7B: Patchogue Railroad Station to Bellport.
7D: North Shirley Loop (serves Shirley (including Shirley Mall and Shirley Railroad Station), East Yaphank, and Mastic).
7E: Mastic Beach Loop (serves Shirley (including Shirley Mall, Shirley Railroad Station, and William Floyd Plaza), Mastic (including the High School), and Mastic Beach). Extended to Smith Point Park during the summer.
8A: Suffolk Community College in Riverhead to Calverton Hills.
10A: Stony Brook Southampton in Southampton to South Ferry in North Haven (not to be confused with Manhattan's South Ferry, a neighborhood village of New York City).
10B: East Hampton Loop (serves East Hampton (including East Hampton Railroad Station), Springs, and Bridgehampton (including Bridgehampton Commons Mall)).
10C: East Hampton Railroad Station to Montauk
10D: Macy's Shopping Center in Hampton Bays to East Quogue
10E: Hampton Bays Loop (serves East Hampton (including Macy's Shopping Center))
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