Connecticut Transit New Haven is the second largest division of Connecticut Transit, 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 sta ...

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, Ansoni ...

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 Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since t ...

, New Haven, and Stamford divisions of CT Transit have been operated by

First Transit First Transit is an American transportation company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, First Transit operates over 300 locations, carrying more than 350 million passengers annually throughout the United States in 39 states, Puerto Rico, Panam ...

. Service is operated seven days a week on 24 routes.

Routes

Regular routes

All routes below originate from the

New Haven Green The New Haven Green is a privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It comprises the central square of the nine-square settlement plan of the original Puritan colonists in New ...

. 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.https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57e3fd6fd1758e2877e24804/t/59bfe1f1f43b5503bd164dc9/1505747734649/DRAFT+FINAL+Move+New+Haven+Phase+1+Report.pdf 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.

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

Routes

Regular routes

Operation

See also

References

External links