BM5 via Woodhaven Posted September 2, 2017 Share #1 Posted September 2, 2017 This went into effect August 6th. Saturday service was expanded, and Sunday Service was launched for the very first time. http://rocklandgov.com/files/8615/0151/5840/TZx_Weekend_service_launch_FINAL.pdf POMONA, NY – The Rockland County Department of Public Transportation has announced that the County’s TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) commuter bus service will launch its first-ever Sunday service schedule, along with a revised, expanded Saturday schedule, beginning the weekend of August 5 and 6, 2017. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is funding the cost for the service expansion. TZx currently operates 24 trips between Rockland and Westchester on Saturdays (12 Eastbound and 12 Westbound) but has no Sunday service. The expanded service will include a revised Saturday schedule with eight new and two extended trips for a total of 32 trips. The all-new Sunday TZx service will match the new level of service on Saturdays. The new weekend service will provide opportunities for expanded public transit travel not only between Rockland and Westchester, but will also provide vastly improved weekend public transit access to Manhattan and other NYC destinations and beyond. It will also create opportunities for new weekend trips from throughout the region to Rockland County’s many entertainment, shopping, work and recreation destinations. Details of the new TZx Weekend Service schedule include 16 trips from Spring Valley between 5 am and 11 pm (Eastbound) and 16 trips from White Plains between 6:52 am and 12:10 am (Westbound). Weekend TZx buses serve the Spring Valley Transit Center, the Nanuet Exit 14 Park & Ride, Palisades Center Park & Ride, Palisades Center Stores bus stop at Macy’s, Central Nyack, Nyack, South Nyack, Tarrytown Rail Station, the Westchester County Center, downtown White Plains, the Galleria Mall and the White Plains TransCenter. Customers have been notified about the new Weekend Schedule via the County’s Text Alert system and with customer notices in bus shelters, onboard buses and online. The new weekend schedules have been printed and are available onboard TZx and TOR buses and at transit hubs throughout Rockland County. The new schedule is also available online at www.rocklandbus.com. Rockland County’s TZx bus service was established in 1989 and has seen several expansions and improvements over the past 28 years. Managed by the Rockland County Department of Public Transportation, TZx also provides weekday service to the same origins and destinations plus Suffern, Airmont and Route 119 in Tarrytown. Weekday service includes 38 Eastbound trips and 37 Westbound trips, operating between the hours of 4:47 am and 1:30 am. TZx commuters can travel express during the AM peak from the Palisades Center Park & Ride to Tarrytown in 20 to 30 minutes. In cooperation with Metro-North, timed connections are made with Hudson Line trains at Tarrytown for both weekend and weekday service. Cost for the weekend service expansion is approximately $40,000 per month. The MTA Board voted to approve the funding for Rockland County in late 2016. Cost to ride TZx is $3.00 one-way, with volume-discounted and senior/disabled reduced fares also available. Metro-North, in cooperation with Rockland County, offers a combined rail/bus UniTicket monthly fare for $371 and a Weekly for $119.50 (to/from Tarrytown). The TZx fleet consists of 19 commuter coach-style buses, including three hybrid-electric and 16 clean diesel buses. The annual cost to operate TZx is approximately $4.4 million, which is funded with farebox revenue, State, Federal, local and MTA transportation dollars (no County tax dollars). TZx carried approximately 335,000 riders in 2016. Here's the weekend service addition, and the entire schedule, respectively: http://rocklandgov.com/files/6315/0213/3654/TZx_weekend_Web_2017_FINAL.pdf http://rocklandgov.com/files/4715/0213/3795/TZx_Full_Web_Page_2017_FINAL.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmatechamp13 Posted September 2, 2017 Share #2 Posted September 2, 2017 I thought it had been implemented long before that. Maybe I'm confusing it with the Ulster-Poughkeepsie Link or the Dutchess LOOP getting Sunday service. In any case, good for Hudson Valley residents that agencies are getting with the times and providing Sunday service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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