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Headquarters | 415 North Zarfoss Drive, York, PA |
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Locale | York Gettysburg |
Service area | York County, Pennsylvania Adams County, Pennsylvania |
Service type | bus service, paratransit |
Routes | 15 regular 1 shuttle 2 connector |
Fleet | 80 |
Daily ridership | 6,000 |
Website | rabbittransit.org |
The Susquehanna Regional Transportation Authority, (formerly Central Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (formerly York Adams Transportation Authority)), doing business as rabbittransit, is the mass transit service of York and Adams counties in Pennsylvania and oversees the transportation needs of Columbia, Cumberland, Franklin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder and Union counties. The agency currently operates 15 fixed routes within York County (12 in York and 3 in Hanover) and 4 routes in Adams County (all of which serve Gettysburg), express bus routes from Gettysburg to Harrisburg and from York to Harrisburg and Towson, Maryland (connecting to the Baltimore Light RailLink of the Baltimore area's Maryland Transit Administration).
The agency, which has an annual ridership of 1.7 million, also provides paratransit services to the disabled, and a shared ride service. [1]
rabbittransit was formerly known as York County Transit Authority. The name was changed in 2000 in order to improve the agency's image. [6] The name is a play of "rapid transit", coincidentally echoing the same play-on-words that formed the basis of the cartoon, Rabbit Transit .
On December 22, 2020, it was announced that rabbittransit would merge with Capital Area Transit (CAT), which offers service in Dauphin and Cumberland counties, to form the Susquehanna Regional Transportation Authority. [7] The merger was proposed in order for better service and to prevent CAT service cuts. [8] The merged system will use the rabbittransit name. The CAT branding continues to be used on CAT buses, with a sticker underneath the CAT logo saying "a service of rabbittransit." [9]
rabbittransit currently[ when? ] operates the following routes:
Route Number | Route Name | Schedule link(s) |
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1A | West Manchester Mall | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
1BC | York Mall/Galleria/Pleasant Acres | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
2 | North & South York via The Crossroads | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
3 | Northwest Plaza/York College/York Hospital | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
4 | Memorial Hospital/Queensgate | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
5 | West York/Haines Road | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
6 | North & South York via Pershing Street | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
12 | Wrightsville/Columbia | Schedule (weekdays only) |
13 | Dover | Schedule (weekdays only) |
14EG | Manchester Industrial Park Via George Street | 14E schedule (evenings) 14E schedule (weekends) 14G schedule (peak hours) |
14S | Manchester Industrial Park Via Susquehanna Trail | 14S schedule (weekdays) |
15 | Red Lion/Dallastown | Schedule (weekdays only) |
15N | Gettysburg Transit Center to HACC Harrisburg Campus | Schedule (weekdays only) |
16 | York to Hanover | Schedule (weekdays only) |
17 | Shrewsbury/Downtown York | Schedule (weekdays only) |
21 | Hanover/Homewood | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
22 | Hanover to Carlisle | Weekday schedule Weekend schedule |
83N | York to Harrisburg | Schedule (weekdays only) |
83S | York to Northern Maryland | Schedule (weekdays only) |
Blue | Transit Center to Deatrick Commons | Schedule (Tuesday-Saturday only) |
Grey | Transit Center to Gateway Gettysburg | Schedule |
Lincoln 1 | Aspire Hotel to Transit Center | Schedule |
Lincoln 2 | Outlets at Gettysburg to Transit Center | Schedule |
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