CT New Haven is the second largest division of
Connecticut Transit
CTtransit (styled as CT ''transit'') is a bus system serving much of the U.S. state of Connecticut and is a division of that state's Connecticut Department of Transportation, Department of Transportation. CTtransit provides bus service vi ...
, providing service on 24 routes in 19 towns within the
Greater New Haven Greater New Haven is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in the U.S. state of Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on the city of New Haven. It occupies the south-central portion of the stat ...
and
Lower Naugatuck River Valley
The Lower Naugatuck Valley, also known locally as simply "The Valley", is a geographic area located around the confluence of the southern parts of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers. It consists of the municipalities of Seymour, Derby, Ansonia, ...
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, CT''transit'' New Haven transitioned their routes from letters to numbers, and are now identified as routes 201-299.
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. 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
GTFS, which stands for General Transit Feed Specification or (originally) Google Transit Feed Specification, defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. GTFS contains only static or schedul ...
shows that only two of the twenty-five routes have on average less than four stops per mile with the highest being eleven.
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
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Connecticut Transit Hartford
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Connecticut Transit New Britain and Bristol
CT New Britain Division and CT Bristol Division is one division of Connecticut Transit that collectively provides local bus service to four towns in the Central Connecticut Region with connections to CT Transit Hartford Division in downtown New B ...
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Connecticut Transit Stamford
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Northeast Transportation Company
All of the above provide CT Transit route service.
References
External links
Official website for CT Transit
{{Connecticut transit
Bus transportation in Connecticut
Surface transportation in Greater New York
Transportation in New Haven, Connecticut
Transportation in New Haven County, Connecticut
Train-related introductions in 1976