Bee Line

A bee line means taking the shortest route or a straight line between two points ("As the crow flies"):

  • Beeline, a method for locating a feral bee hive

In transportation:

  • Bee-Line Bus System of Westchester County, New York, United States
  • Bee Line Buzz Company, a former bus operator in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Bee Line Expressway, an earlier name of Florida State Road 528 east of Orlando in the United States
  • Beeline Highway, Arizona State Route 87 in the United States
  • Beeline, or Okmulgee Beeline, the section of U.S. Route 75 from Tulsa to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States
  • Bee Line Railroad, a railway in western Indiana, United States; serving Warren County and Benton County
  • Butte Regional Transit, a public transit system in Butte County, California, United States
  • Vogelfluglinie, the road, rail and ferry route between Hamburg (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • BEE-LINE, Brussels Airlines callsign

and other meanings:

  • Beeline (telecommunications), a Russian telecommunications company
  • Vermilion snapper, a species of fish
  • Beeline (album), a 2002 album by Peter Case

Famous quotes containing the words bee and/or line:

    “Ah evil wedlock! Ah fate!
    she incites all to evil,
    she flutters over all things,
    like a bee in flight.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.”
    —Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)