Long Beach Bus

Long Beach Bus

Long Beach Bus #175 leaves the railroad station, preparing to serve the East Loop route
Parent	City of Long Beach Department of Transportation
Headquarters	1 West Chester Street Long Beach, NY 11561
Locale	Southern Nassau County
Service area	Long Beach and Point Lookout
Service type	Local bus service
Routes	5
Fleet	11 (fixed route) 4 (paratransit) (2013 figures)
Daily ridership	1,469 (weekday) 827 (Saturday) 550 (Sunday)
Chief executive	Brendan T. Costello
Website	Long Beach Bus

Long Beach Bus is a public transportation system serving on the south shore of Long Island, New York. The service operates twenty-four hours a day, with five different routes connecting to one another and to Nassau Inter-County Express and Long Island Rail Road at Long Beach Station in the city center. Although Long Beach Bus is designed to complement county bus and commuter rail service, it is run independently by Long Beach DOT.

The service operates 24-hours a day, except early Monday mornings. The service operates five routes, with two regular services within the city, one extended route to the Long Beach's eastern suburbs, one tourist trolley line and one overnight circulator. Viability of such an extensive service in a suburban setting is made possible by Long Beach's high-density layout: due to the limited supply of land on the island, fewer than 40% of homes are detached houses, making Long Beach one of the twenty-five densest cities in the country, just behind San Francisco but ahead of Jersey City. The service also plays an important role in transporting the many tourists who arrive in the summer by train from New York City.

Because it is owned and operated independently by the City of Long Beach, and not by Nassau County, Long Beach Bus was unaffected by the recent privatization of Long Island Bus.

Most service information is provided bilingually in both English and American Spanish.