Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) is the Nassau County funded bus system serving eastern Long Island. Since 2012, the system has been operated by Transdev (formerly Veolia) under contract to Nassau County. Prior to that time, the system was known as MTA Long Island Bus and was operated by the MTA. This arrangement was terminated due to disputes over the size of the subsidy MTA provided to operate the service. MTA's operation of Long Island Bus dated back to 1973, when the MTA began acquiring the private companies that had operated bus service in Nassau County before that time. As of early 2020, NICE operates 38 routes using 280 buses.