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Parent | City of Poughkeepsie |
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Headquarters | 26 Howard Street Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 |
Locale | Poughkeepsie, NY |
Service type | Local bus service |
Routes | 5 |
Fleet | 8 [1] (2009 figures) |
Daily ridership | 1,522 (weekday) 756 (Saturday) [1] |
Website | City of Poughkeepsie Transit |
City of Poughkeepsie Transit was the municipal bus system serving the City of Poughkeepsie, New York as well as parts of the Town of Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park. The system operated five different regular routes and a service which served students at Poughkeepsie Middle School and Poughkeepsie High School. All buses ran mostly as unidirectional loops and met at the corner of Main and Market streets adjacent to the west end of the former Main Mall. Buses ran hourly middays, every 30–45 minutes in peak periods.
Service within these areas is now provided by the Dutchess County Public Transit system, a division of the Dutchess County Division of Public Transit. [2]
The five main routes were:
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