CT Transit New Haven
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![]() CT Transit New Haven Division New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 1750 heading to garage after a run on (formerly) the M3. | |
Parent | Connecticut Department of Transportation |
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Founded | 1976 |
Headquarters | 2061 State St. Hamden, Connecticut 06517 |
Locale | Connecticut |
Service area | Greater New Haven |
Service type | Local bus service |
Routes | 24 local 1 flyer 2 commuter shuttle |
Hubs | New Haven Green |
Fleet | 114 |
Operator | RATP Dev, USA |
Chief executive | Thomas E. Stringer, Jr. HNS General Manager |
Website | Official Website |
CT New Haven[1] is the second largest division of Connecticut Transit, providing service on 24 routes in 19 towns within the Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck River Valley areas, with connections to other CT Transit routes in Waterbury and Meriden, as well as connections to systems in Milford and Bridgeport at the Connecticut Post Mall.
Since 1979, the Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford divisions of CT Transit have been operated by First Transit. Service is operated seven days a week on 24 routes.
Routes
Regular routes
All routes below originate from the New Haven Green. Through service is provided between routes with the same letter. In October 2017, CTtransit New Haven transitioned their routes from letters to numbers, and are now identified as routes 201-299.[2]
Route | Route name | Terminus | Neighborhoods/towns served | Notes |
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USS | Union Station Shuttle | Union Station | USS: Union Station Free Shuttle | Downtown New Haven
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201 | Madison | 201 (S1): Madison via US 1 | New Haven, East Haven, Branford, Guilford, Madison |
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204 | East Haven | 204 (F3): Branford Green 204 (F4): Walmart (Branford) 204M (F2): Momauguin | Wooster Square, Annex, East Haven, Branford |
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206 | East Chapel St | 206 (G2): Tweed NH Airport-Lighthouse Rd 206E (GF): Tweed NH Airport-East Haven Center 206F (G): Ferry St | Fair Haven, Fair Haven Heights, Annex, East Shore |
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212 | Grand Ave | 212 (D): Ferry St 212B (D3): Bella Vista 212F (D12): Bella Vista-Walmart (New Haven)-Foxon Rd 212F (DL): Bella Vista-Foxon Rd-North Branford 212U (D13): Bella Vista-Walmart-Universal Dr 212U (D14): Universal Dr-North Haven Center 212UX (C4): UNIVERSAL DR via I-91 212W (D4): Bella Vista-Walmart (New Haven) | Fair Haven, Fair Haven Heights |
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213 | North Branford | 213X (L1): North Branford Center via Maple & Carol 213X (L2): North Branford Center via Foxon Rd | Quinnipiac Meadows, East Haven (Foxon), North Branford | |
215 | North Haven/Meriden | 215 (C3): North Haven Center via Grand Ave 215X (C3X): North Haven Center via I-91 215M (C1): Meriden TC via Grand Ave 215MX (C1X): Meriden TC via I-91 215W (C2): Wallingford via Grand Ave 215WX (C2X): Wallingford via I-91 215X: Amazon | Fair Haven Heights, Quinnipiac Meadows, North Haven, Wallingford, Meriden |
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223 | Lombard St | 223 (Q1): Clinton Park 223W (Q3): Walmart (New Haven) | East Rock, Fair Haven |
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224 | State St | 224 (M5): State & Ridge 224D (M3): Devine St 224N (M4): Northside | East Rock, Hamden, North Haven |
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228 | Whitney Ave | 228 (J) Davis St 228C (J1): Centerville 228C (J2): Centerville via Hamden Hills & Hamden Plaza 228C (J3): Centerville-Cheshire 228H (J8): Hamden Plaza via Skiff St | East Rock, Prospect Hill, Hamden, Cheshire |
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229 | Waterbury | 229 (J4) Waterbury via Whitney Ave 229X (J4X): Waterbury via I-91 | East Rock, Prospect Hill, Hamden, Cheshire, Waterbury |
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234 | Winchester Ave | 234 (O4): Millrock Rd 234P (O5): Davenport Apts 234P (O7): Davenport Apts-Putnam Place | Prospect Hill, Newhallville, Hamden |
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237 | Shelton Ave | 237 (G1): Marlboro St 237P (G3): Marlboro St-Putnam Place 237P (G4): Marlboro St-Pine Rock 237B: Marlboro St-Brookside | Dixwell, Newhallville |
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238 | Dixwell Ave | 238 (D5): Hamden Plaza 238C (D6): Hamden Plaza-Hamden Hills-Centerville 238C (D7): Hamden Plaza-Centerville 238C (D8): Hamden Plaza-Hamden Hills-Centerville via Circular Av 238C(D9): Hamden Plaza-Centerville via Circular Av 238P (D10): Putnam Place | Dixwell, Newhallville, Hamden |
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241 | Goffe St | 241 (Z1): West Hills 246A (FQZ): EDGEWOOD AVE-Amity Rd/West Hills via West Chapel St (weeknights and all day Sunday) | Dixwell, Beaver Hills, West Rock, Amity |
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243 | Whalley Ave | 243A (B2): Amity Rd-Amity Shopping Ctr 243A (B3): Amity Rd-JCC 243A (B3): Amity Road-JCC-Seymour 243B (B1): SCSU-Brookside | Westville, West Rock, Amity, Woodbridge |
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246 | Edgewood Ave | 246 (Q2): Fountain St 246A (Q4): Amity Rd 246A (FQZ): Amity Rd/West Hills via West Chapel St (weeknights and all day Sunday) | Dwight, Edgewood, Westville, Amity |
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25 | West Chapel St | 254 (F5): Ella Grasso Blvd 246A (FQZ): EDGEWOOD AVE-Amity Rd/West Hills via West Chapel St | Dwight, West River |
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255 | Ansonia-Seymour | 255 (F6): Ansonia-Seymour via West Chapel St & Derby RR Station | Dwight, West River, Derby, Shelton, Ansonia, Seymour |
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261 261x | Boston Post Rd | 261 (O2): Westfield CT Post 261X (55X, formerly PMF): CT Post Mall via I-95 | The Hill, West River, West Haven, Orange, Milford |
as well as Milford Transit District local route 4. |
265 | Congress Ave | 265 (B): West Haven Center 265B (B4): Bull Hill Ln/Sawmill Rd 265B (BO): Bull Hill Ln/Sawmill Rd via Boston Post Rd 265B (BJO): Bull Hill Ln via Boston Post Rd & Union Station 265R (B5): Oyster River 265R (B6): Oyster River via Railroad Ave 265S (B7): Savin Rock | The Hill, West Haven Center |
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268 | Washington Ave | 268 (M1): New Haven Career Campus 268C (M2): Veterans Hosp-Coleman & Greta 268B (M7): Veterans Hosp-Bull Hill Ln 268C (ZM): Long Wharf-Veterans Hosp-Coleman & Greta via Sargent Dr | The Hill, West Haven |
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271 | Kimberly Ave | 271 (J): Ella Grasso Blvd 271M (J7): Milford Green 271M (J7): Milford Green-CT Post Mall 271R (J6): Oyster River (Sunday only) 271S (J5): Savin Rock | The Hill, City Point, West Haven, Woodmont, Milford |
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272 | Union Ave | 272 (J): Union Station 268B (BJO): CONGRESS AVE-Bull Hill Ln via Boston Post Rd & Union Station |
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274 | Sargent Dr | 274 (Z2): Long Wharf 274C (Z3): City Point 268C (ZM): WASHINGTON AVE-Long Wharf-Veterans Hosp-Coleman & Greta | Long Wharf |
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278 | New Haven Commuter Connection | Downtown | Downtown New Haven
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950 | 20 (née 42) | Hartford Express | 950 (20): Hartford Express | New Haven, North Haven, Middletown, Wethersfield, Hartford
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Operation
In downtown New Haven, Connecticut pedestrians board public buses on all sides of the green -the "Central Park" of New Haven. New Haven's buses are late to stops over fifty percent of the time.
State Public Transit Administrator Dennis Solensky suggested this structure of routing, which he calls hub and spoke, funneling all people downtown.[4] The use of the spoke-hub distribution paradigm results in buses sitting in traffic in the heart of the city, which may delay scheduled stops.
Bus service guidelines in Connecticut suggest there be no more than four stops per mile on any given route. However, CT Transit's General Transit Feed Specification shows that only two of the twenty-five routes have on average less than four stops per mile with the highest being eleven.[5] Bus ridership in New Haven has fallen drastically hurting an already struggling transportation budget. Economic returns from bus routes have ranged from sixty-four percent to two percent of the cost to maintain.
There are no plans to amend this issue even after the addition of GPS monitoring on all buses revealed how bad the situation truly is. Fifty five percent of stops are reached exceeding five minutes past the scheduled time.
See also
- Connecticut Transit Hartford
- Connecticut Transit New Britain and Bristol
- Connecticut Transit Stamford
- Northeast Transportation Company
All of the above provide CT Transit route service.
References
- ^ "Local Service". CT Transit. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
- ^ "Important information regarding the route renumbering and renaming for CTtransit's New Haven-area bus routes". CT Transit. 2017-08-30. Archived from the original on 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "Schedules". CT Transit. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
- ^ Breen, Thomas (2019-10-15). "Report: Buses Late Half The Time". New Haven Independent. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
- ^ "Existing Conditions and Evaluation of the Greater New Haven Bus System" (PDF). 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-06.
External links
- Official website for CT Transit
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