Suffolk County Transit

Suffolk County Transit

Suffolk County Transit #7026 on the 66
Founded	1980–1981
Headquarters	Yaphank
Service area	Suffolk County
Service type	Bus service
Routes	28
Destinations	Full county-wide service with major hubs at Amityville LIRR station, Bay Shore, Brentwood LIRR station, Central Islip LIRR station, Patchogue LIRR station, Riverhead LIRR station and the Smith Haven Mall.
Depots	6
Fleet	157 fixed-route, 147 SCAT[1] (2013 figures)
Fuel type	Gasoline, Diesel, Hybrid-Electric
Operator	See operator list below
Website	sctbus.org

Suffolk County Transit is the provider of bus services in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island and is an agency of the Suffolk County government. It was founded in 1980 as a county-run oversight and funding agency for a group of private contract operators which had previously provided such services on their own. While the physical maintenance and operation of the buses continue to be provided by these providers, other matters ranging from bus purchases to route and schedule planning to fare rules are set by Suffolk Transit itself.

Though serving the entirety of Suffolk County, the one exception is in Huntington, located in the northwestern part of the county, where that town's private operator declined to join Suffolk Transit. Instead, Huntington took over that town's system which became Huntington Area Rapid Transit, or HART. Most of HART's routes do connect to both Suffolk Transit and Nassau Inter-County Express and one can transfer between HART and Suffolk Transit fairly easily.^[2] In addition, the village of Patchogue previously had its own local bus service, but discontinued it.^[3]