Broward County Transit
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A Broward County Transit bus in the current "Breeze" livery.
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| Slogan | Our Best. Nothing Less. |
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| Parent | Broward County |
| Headquarters | Pompano Beach, Florida |
| Service area | 410 square miles (1,100 km2) |
| Service type | Bus |
| Alliance | Miami-Dade Transit,Tri-Rail, Palm Tran, Amtrak |
| Routes | 44 |
| Stops | 5,037 |
| Fleet | 371 (Excluding Paratransit Fleet) |
| Daily ridership | 123,800 (Q1 2016) |
| Annual ridership | 39,209,100 (2015) |
| Fuel type | Diesel, Biodiesel, Diesel-electric |
| Operator | Broward County |
| Chief executive | Tim Garling |
| Website | http://www.broward.org/bct/ |
Broward County Transit (also known as BCT) is the public transit authority in Broward County, Florida. It is the second-largest transit system in Florida after Miami-Dade Transit. It currently operates the only public bus system in Broward County. Besides serving Broward County, It also serves portions of Palm Beach County and Miami-Dade County, where it overlaps its service with Miami-Dade Transit and Palm Tran.
Since around 2000, Broward County Transit has developed a themed livery for each generation of its new and existing fleet. Before 2000, each generation of the fleet was simply known as Broward County Transit. So far, there have been 2 named generations.
The Bee Line generation (not to be confused with Westchester County's Bee-Line Bus System) was introduced to the fleet in the early 2000s. During this time, they retired most of their older, high-floor buses and replaced them with a brand new fleet of low-floor buses,which were first delivered in 1997. All new buses ordered during this period and its current fleet were painted white with a yellow honeycomb pattern stripe applied to all sides of each bus. A cartoon bee character was also placed on each bus. But the character has since been removed on most of its fleet. The former livery was a split orange and blue stripe with no theme name. The previous livery was used from early 1980s until the late 90's.
The Breeze generation was introduced in 2007 as 2 special limited-stop service routes following along U.S. 1 and S.R.7(HWY 441) from Northern Broward County all the way towards Northern Miami-Dade County. Broward County Transit introduced 6 New Flyer D60LFR articulated buses for service on the S.R.7(US 441) route. In addition the new buses, they also feature free Wi-Fi access to riders on this route. BCT has now added forty-Eight 40 ft (12 m). NABI 40-LFW buses to the fleet. All new buses ordered and soon most of its current fleet will or already have been painted in white with a large blue arc pointing forward and a small light blue arc (7 of the new buses delivered were painted in silver instead of white for The Breeze U.S. 1 limited stop service). Now in 2008 BCT ordered 42 newly restyled NABIs 40 ft (12 m) low-floor including 12 hybrid buses.
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