Parent | Putnam County Department of Planning, Development, and Public Transportation |
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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 | MV Transportation |
Website | Official website |
Putnam Transit or Putnam Area Rapid Transit (PART) [2] 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 MV Transportation.
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. A sixth route is catered towards Metro North commuters going to New York via the Harlem Line. All routes run Monday-Saturday, unless otherwise noted.
Route | Terminal 1 | Terminal 2 | Major streets traveled | Notes |
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PT 1 (blue) | Putnam Lake | Putnam Plaza | Route 6, North Brewster Road, Doansburg Road |
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PT 2 (brown) | Jefferson Valley Jefferson Valley Mall | Putnam Plaza | Route 6, Route 6N |
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PT 3 (yellow) | Patterson | Putnam Plaza | Route 312, Route 311, Fair Street |
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PT 5 (red) | Carmel Route 52 and Ludingtonville Road | Putnam Plaza | Route 52, Terry Hill Road |
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Cold Spring Trolley | Cold Spring-Nelsonville-Garrison Loop | May–December only Friday-Sunday, 11AM-5PM | ||
Croton Falls Shuttle | Mahopac | Croton Falls | Route 6 |
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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).
PART has connection points with several transit agencies from adjacent areas.
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The Putnam Area Rapid Transit system (PART) provides five fixed buses routes...