Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation
| Founded | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 42 Sumner Drive |
| Locale | Dover, New Hampshire, USA |
| Service area |
Strafford County, New Hampshire Rockingham County, New Hampshire |
| Service type | Bus service, paratransit |
| Routes | 12 |
| Fleet | 24 |
| Website | www |
The Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (COAST) is the primary provider of mass transportation for the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, as well as parts of southern Maine. COAST is a non-profit agency founded in 1981 to provide public transportation options in southeastern New Hampshire. First established solely as a private contractor to previously existing bus lines, COAST now runs its own set of public transit routes and transports almost 500,000 passengers per year.
COAST operates a fleet of 37 vehicles, including standard transit buses, trolley replicas, cutaway vans, and accessible minivans as part of its regular service. COAST's operating fleet consists of the following (as of 2013):
Transit buses
Vans
COAST's four regional routes, particularly routes 1 and 2, have historically been the backbone of its transit operations.
(Dover, Somersworth, Berwick)
(Portsmouth, Dover, Rochester)
(Farmington, Rochester)
(Exeter, Stratham, Newmarket)
COAST currently operates three "local routes", one in the city of Dover and two in the city of Portsmouth. Route 33 provides local service to Sixth Street and the Strafford County Complex in Dover, while Routes 40 and 41 constitute the trolley routes serving downtown Portsmouth and Pease International Tradeport.
Its current route along Sixth Street to the Strafford County Complex was preserved. There exist several on-call stops along the route, with connections to C&J Trailways at the NHDOT Park & Ride facility and to regional routes 1, 2, 3 (and the Amtrak Downeaster) at the Dover Transportation Center.
Half-hourly service during commuter hours was added as part of a service expansion in 2012 (along with Route 2).
It offers connections to regional routes 2, 4, and 7 and runs in tandem with the Lafayette Road Trolley (Route 41) in a continuous loop. The Trolley routes run on a reduced schedule on Saturdays.
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