Expanded Tappan ZEExpress Bus Service

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