Boo-Hoo! Bee Line Bus Airlink

Posted on | May 16, 2010 |

Thanks Nick B for your comments. Just recently Westchester County Bee Line bus service in New York, just outside NYC, canceled it’s AirLink bus service from Westchester County Airport (HPN) to White Plains. This bus was a fifteen minute and $2.25 ride to the train station and bus station where you could make inexpensive connections to NYC for $7.25 on the Harlem Line MTA Metro-North train and elsewhere.

For me, it was like a free ride to my usual destination. I would take the AirLink and connect to the number 60. It would only cost me $2.25 right to my door. I could even get a free transfer in NYC if I made it to the subway or another bus within two hours. Although the ride took more than an hour and -a-half to do what a car could do in thirty minutes, the cost savings was great. A taxi usually cost about sixty dollars to go to the same destination. Boo-Hoo!

The alternative now is the regular bus that goes a round about way and makes the first leg a forty minute journey to do what once took 15 minutes. On the other hand I sort of can’t blame them. Most often, I was the only passenger on the bus along with a smattering of airport employees. On the other hand, they have created even less accessibility to another airport in a busy metropolitan area.

It is also beyond me as to why there has never been a bus to Port Chester, NY. It would make access to and from another MTA Metro-North train line and another busy town near NYC much easier without having to go all the way into Manhattan to catch a train on the New Haven Line of the Metro-North Railroad or take expensive taxis at $25.00 a pop for a fifteen minute ride?

This has been a huge change in bus service and has certainly altered how I arrange my travel plans when flying into and out of NYC. It really is another negative notch downward in accessibility to the area’s main transportation hubs.

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