City Of Long Beach Restores Bus Service

The City of Long Beach announced that, nearly a month after it cut weekend and nighttime bus service, that it was being restored.

The city credited the restoration of service to a payment of $150,000 from Nassau County, which the city said it owed and was past due.

The night and weekend bus service was eliminated last month after the City Council voted down a $2.1 million bond, creating a dire fiscal emergency for the city. To help fill in the huge budget gap, the city cut bus service.

Weekend service will resume its normal schedule on Saturday, May 19, the city said. The Shopper's Special and Point Lookout buses will be returning to service next week.

"Thank you to County Executive [Laura] Curran for expediting the reimbursement process for $150,000 in transportation funds that the city has been owed by Nassau County," the city wrote on its website. "This payment was past due to for 2015 and 2016, and we are thrilled to finally have received it."

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