The Bee-Line System (Roblox)

The Bee-Line System is a group founded by Jxyd_en, based on the real system that mainly serves Westchester County in New York. The group was founded on May 29, 2020, and first began operations on 7/21/20. It has been quickly growing ever since and currently has 1,081 members as of August 17th, 2021. As of April 2022 the group has merged operations with Manhattan Transit Commission.

Overview
The Bee-Line System currently operates two divisions, Mount Vernon - East, and Yonkers. Currently, Yonkers is the largest division with bus routes serving The Bronx, Yonkers, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Tarrytown, White Plains, and much more. Mount Vernon - East currently serves The Bronx, Downtown Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and Bronxville, and will soon serve other towns such as Scarsdale, Larchmont, Port Chester, and Platinum Mile. There are plans underway for Bee-Line's Central Park Avenue Division with Routes 20/21 (20X not included since it's the most useless route), BxM4C, and maybe the MTA RBO-operated M1 bus for Senior Bus Operators+

History
The Bee-Line System was founded on May 29th, 2020. At the time, the owner Jxyd_en, was running another group called Bloxia Transportation Authority (a now defunct group because of issues with drama). Two months later, on July 21st, 2020, Bee-Line officially started operations with Yonkers Divison. There was only one route, Route 1, which only ran between 242nd Street Subway Station and South Broadway/Highland Avenue because Getty Square was not built at that moment. The only buses being used was the Orion VII OG HEV and the original New Flyer XDE40. Because of Bee-Line's fast pacing growth, the group hit 150 members on August 2nd, 2020. Later in that month, the New Flyer XDE40 was retired since it was a fill-in bus before the 2018 - 19 New Flyer XDE60 was completed. Around this time, a service slowdown occurred from August to October in order to speed up development.

In September, the Orion V entered service and around this time, other routes started service such as phases of Route 1 to City Line, Route 2 to Getty Square, and much more. Sometime between October and November, Bee-Line allied with nextTransport Solutions, allowing orders of the nextTransport NABI to commence. In November, three groups (Royal Transit Authority, Concourse City Transit, and CTFastTrak) were blacklisted due to RTA and CCT leaking nextTransport assets and CTFastTrack leaking Bee-Line's outdated New Flyer XDE40 from August with the original scripts. In December 2020, a poll by Jxyd_en was posted regarding of a slowdown in order to speed up development of the Mount Vernon - East Division. The slowdown went ahead with a lack of shifts and trainings put on hold starting in early January and ending in late March 2021.

In 2021, Mount Vernon Division opens for the first time with Yonkers closing for major refurbishment. It included two new routes, Route 52 and Route 54. At the time, the first routes were too small for the New Flyer XDE60 as they had roads that were too tight to make at Mount Vernon Hospital, so the New Flyer XDE60 was out of service before Route 42 was completed between 241st Street Subway Station and Main Street/Pintard Avenue. At the time, the road from Main Street and Pintard Avenue lacked scenery so the road was blocked off until some scenery was completed. In around March, the New Flyer XDE40 was reintroduced as a nextTransport model although it had some issues when it came to bugs. In April 2021, ProjectGENESIS was introduced, which was aimed to upgrade the Orion V and Orion VII OG HEV and run alongside nextTransport buses. Currently, the Orion V is the only bus that has been upgraded with the Orion VII OG HEV being upgraded soon. At a Mount Vernon shift, it was announced that Yonkers Division is set to reopen on May 29th with a Getty Square rebuild. On May 10th, 2021, Senior Bus Operators were introduced by Jxyd_en. Sometime around late June to early July, Bee-Line's Yonkers Division was reopened with buses now going as far as Tarrytown and White Plains.

Nothing changed until July 31st, when a former Bee-Line ally, Société de Transport de Summit, was found bullying PoizGamesAlternate to near suicide and talking behind nextTransport founder IBM_PowerPC (known as CommodoreCDTV) and StrawberryNutt0621 after an investigation. The end result was Bee-Line, nextTransport, Manhattan Transit Commission, and several other groups sanctioning STS.

On August 20, 2021, the Project Genesis 200-series Orion VII "OG" Hybrid was put into service, replacing the first generation Orion VIIs. These buses have the website decal but because of Roblox requirements, they show "roblox.gov" instead of "Westchester.gov" as opposed to real life. Like most refurbished buses in the fleet, these have full LED headlights, alongside closely realistic LED displays.

In November 2021, the group went on hiatus after stating it would shut down; as of December 23, 2021, the group has been reactivated and will resume operations on December 26, 2021 as per a Twitter post.

As of April 2022, Bee-Line merges all operations with Manhattan Transit Commission. All former Bee-Line operations are acquired by Manhattan Transit Commission.

Seasonal Routes
These routes offer seasonal service to Rye Playland Park during summers only.

Westchester - Manhattan Express
These routes offers bus service to Manhattan from White Plains during weekdays and rush hour.

Future for Bee-Line
On April 22nd, a new bus modelling project by the name of 'ProjectGENESIS' was introduced in order to replace the current Bee-Line Orion VII OG HEVs (which have been around for nearly a year) and the current Bee-Line Orion Vs with better technology, a new GUI, and overall a better experience for drivers. The rollout of the new Orion V has been completed as the original Orion V was retired on April 27th, 2021 after seven months of service.

During a run hosted by Jxyd_en, it was announced that Yonkers Division would be set to re-open on May 29th with a proposed Getty Square rebuilding, Tarrytown RR Station and Route 2 part time service into Executive Boulevard, and Route 6, which will be the first ever Bee-Line RBLX route that does not run into the Bronx, however, development slowed down and reopening was pushed back to June 12th and eventually July. The revamped division wasn't supposed to include Route 8 but currently, there are signs directing to Tuckahoe. As of writing this (August 3rd, 2021), a new Orion VII OG HEV model is set to be complete sometime in the future, replacing the current model by pl_zs.

The Bee-Line System Allies
The Bee-Line System Allies [Last Updated: 8/1/2021]
 * (NT) nextTransport Solutions by CommodoreCDTV  
 * (WTA) Woodville Transit Authority by crazyToyFreddy
 * Manhattan Transit Commission by TableSaltChan (Brake_Handle) & IBM_PowerPC (CommodoreCDTV)

Trivia

 * In real life, The Bee Line System has decals for Westchester County's website (westchestergov.com) at the front doors; these were replaced with The Bee-Line System logos as Roblox does not allow the use of non-approved website URLs. On the New Flyer XDE60 however, "Roblox.gov" is written in its place as an alternative.


 * The Bee-Line RBLX group was actually established on the birthday of an Executive-Board Member on May 29th, 2020.
 * Routes 8, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 54, 60, and 61 are the only routes to provide open door service in The Bronx.
 * Route 12 is the only route to enter Connecticut. This is because NY Route 120A (King Street) straddles along the Connecticut border with two parts being physically located in Connecticut
 * Routes 16 and 77 are the only buses to serve part of Putnam County
 * ProjectGENESIS buses are planned to operate alongside nextTransport buses in the near future.
 * The Orion VII OG HEV is a modified model from one of Jxyd_en's previous groups. It is planned to be upgraded when Yonkers Division reopens.
 * Currently, the only buses to not have a functioning HVAC system is the Orion VII OG HEV and the New Flyer XDE60, and the Orion V and Orion VII OG HEV does not have functional windshield wipers.