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Slogan We Keep Rockland Rolling Parent Rockland County Department of Public Transportation Headquarters Yeager Health Center, Bldg. TPomona, New York 10970 Locale | ||
The Transport of Rockland (TOR) is the bus system for Rockland County, New York, providing service along major routes in Rockland County, as well as connections to Clarkstown Mini-Trans in Clarkstown, Spring Valley Jitney in Spring Valley, the Bee-Line Bus System in Westchester as well as connections to Rockland Coaches and Short Line Bus routes providing commuter and local service to Northern New Jersey and New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, George Washington Bridge Bus Station, 5th Avenue, and Long Island. Annual ridership in 2008 was 3,862,232.
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Service area
TOR serves an area of 176 square miles (460 km2) with a population of 286,753. Operations of fixed-route service is provided by Brega Transport Corporation of Congers, NY as of November 3, 2013. The previous contractor was Rockland Coaches for routes within Rockland County, and Hudson Transit Corporation for the TappanZee Express.
TOR provides service primarily along county and state highway corridors in Rockland County, along with shuttle routes servicing the Town of Ramapo and an express route between Spring Valley, Palisades Center in West Nyack, Nyack, and Westchester County to connect with Metro-North trains to Manhattan. In the Town of Clarkstown and Village of Spring Valley, there are other minibus services provided by those towns that supplement TOR service.
Fare
The standard one-way fare for Transport of Rockland fixed-route services is $2.00, and $3.00 for Tappan ZEExpress service. Transfers cost $1.00. Fares on Clarkstown Mini-Trans and Spring Valley Jitney are $1.50 with transfers at 30 cents.
TOR transfers are valid on other TOR buses, Spring Valley Jitney vans, Tappan ZEExpress buses, and Clarkstown Mini-Trans vans. Tappan ZEExpress transfers, in addition to validity on these service, are also valid for a connecting Bee-Line bus or the CT Transit Stamford I-Bus to Greenwich, CT, and Stamford, CT.
Paratransit
The County of Rockland also operates Transportation Resources Intra-County for Physically Handicapped and Senior Citizens (T.R.I.P.S.), the ADA-mandated curbside-to-curbside para-transit bus service for Rockland County residents who are physically or mentally challenged. In addition, senior citizens over the age of 60 who find it difficult or impossible to use fixed-route bus service can also use this service.
Routes
The Transport of Rockland provides service along twelve routes. All service is accessible to customers with mobility impairments.
The full route is shown except for branching.