RC229 picks up Route 94 customers in Spring Valley, due north to Helen Hayes Hospital.
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Slogan | We Keep Rockland Rolling |
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Parent | Rockland County Department of Public Transportation |
Headquarters | Yeager Health Center, Bldg. T Pomona, New York 10970 |
Locale | Rockland County, New York |
Service type | Local bus transit |
Fleet | 71 |
Operator | Brega Transport Corporation |
Chief executive |
Thomas B. Vanderbeek, P.E. Commissioner |
Website | Transport of Rockland |
Thomas B. Vanderbeek, P.E.
The Transport of Rockland (TOR) is the bus system for Rockland County, New York, providing service along major routes in Rockland County, as well as connections to Clarkstown Mini-Trans in Clarkstown, Spring Valley Jitney in Spring Valley, the Bee-Line Bus System in Westchester as well as connections to Rockland Coaches and Short Line Bus routes providing commuter and local service to Northern New Jersey and New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, George Washington Bridge Bus Station, 5th Avenue, and Long Island. Annual ridership in 2008 was 3,862,232.
TOR serves an area of 176 square miles (460 km2) with a population of 286,753. Operations of fixed-route service is provided by Brega Transport Corporation of Congers, NY as of November 3, 2013. The previous contractor was Rockland Coaches for routes within Rockland County, and Hudson Transit Corporation for the TappanZee Express.
TOR provides service primarily along county and state highway corridors in Rockland County, along with shuttle routes servicing the Town of Ramapo and an express route between Spring Valley, Palisades Center in West Nyack, Nyack, and Westchester County to connect with Metro-North trains to Manhattan. In the Town of Clarkstown and Village of Spring Valley, there are other minibus services provided by those towns that supplement TOR service.