The following tables give details for the routes that primarily service Suffolk County. For details on routes that run into Suffolk County but do not service it primarily, see:
On October 29, 2023, Suffolk Transit introduced the Reimagine Transit Initiative,[1] a full redesign of the bus network. As part of this redesign, there is daily service system-wide with local buses running weekdays until 10 p.m. and to 8 or 9 p.m. on weekends.
All current routes
Most routes west of Port Jefferson and Patchogue are scheduled with 30 minute headways (60 minutes on routes 3, 10 and 15) during weekdays until at least 6:00 p.m. On all routes from Port Jefferson and Patchogue and to the east, including the north-south routes between those two terminals, there are 60-minute headways (except for 30-minute headways on routes 51 and 66). All weekday late evening and weekend service runs on 60-minute headways. Route numbers (not including 110) are lower in the western portion of the county (1 through 17) and higher in the middle and eastern portions (51 through 92). Odd-numbered routes are generally oriented north to south, with even numbers west to east. Timed connections between routes can be made at Long Island Rail Road stations in Amityville, Brentwood, Central Islip, Patchogue, and Riverhead, in Bay Shore and at the Smith Haven Mall.
In April 2024, SCT released an updated version of their system map, with the most notable change being a new Route 56 between Smithtown Railroad and Kings Park Manor.[3] In early June, SCT made the new route official by releasing a schedule for it. This came after the portion of the former S56 between Smithtown and Kings Park which was utilized by senior citizens needed to be restored. Since then, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced that if additional funding is allocated to SCT from the State, he will begin restoring a few more of the routes that were cut from the previous network. Route 56 is the first new route to be added to the system since the redesign took effect in October 2023.[4]
History of current routes
These current routes, which became active on October 29, 2023, are replacements and reconfigurations of the previous routes that were prefixed with an "S" label, although more localized routes did not have the prefix. The prefix denoted Suffolk County, akin to route labeling in other transit systems around the region. See further down in this article for historical information about all of the former routes. The routes listed in this table replaced all the previous routes on October 29, 2023.[32]
Former routes - S1 to S94
Most of these routes were reconfigured and replaced by the routes listed above on October 29, 2023 in conjunction with the Reimagine Transit Initiative.
Former routes - 1A to 10E
Huntington Area Rapid Transit (HART)
Former Route H9 at the Walt Whitman Mall in South Huntington
Huntington Area Rapid Transit exclusively serves the Town of Huntington. Service runs weekdays and Saturday until 6 p.m. with no service on Sunday. Service is scheduled approximately every 45 minutes on weekdays and 90 minutes on Saturday.[77]
Former routes
Former Routes - Patchogue Bus
These routes ran local within the Village of Patchogue on weekdays only.
^ a b c d"SCT On Demand". sctbus.org. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
^"Suffolk County Transit Bus Map" (PDF). sctbus.org. Suffolk County Transit. April 3, 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 4, 2024. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
^Castillo, Alfonso A. (May 13, 2024). "After Suffolk bus revamp, mixed reviews as county asks state for more funding". Newsday. Retrieved July 4, 2024.