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)

    “Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)