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Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) is the primary public transit authority of Miami, Florida and the greater Miami-Dade County area. It is the largest transit system in Florida and the 15th-largest transit system in the United States. [4] As of 2023, the system has 80,168,700 rides per year, or about 276,400 per weekday in the second quarter of 2024.
Some 21.9 percent of bus riders skipped the fare in the last three months of 2018, closing out a year with a fare evasion rate of 18.4 percent, according to statistics New York City Transit ...
(legal name, not used publicly: MTA Grand Central Madison Concourse Operating Company) [58] MTA Staten Island Railway (SIR) (legal name, no longer used publicly: Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority) [57] [58] MTA Construction and Development (MTAC&D) (legal name, not used publicly: MTA Construction and Development Company) [58]
The CharlieCard is named after the lead character in the 1948 protest folk music song, "M.T.A.".The song was written to protest a fare increase in the form of an extra five cent exit fare for longer rides and was later made popular by The Kingston Trio in 1959.
The first community college in New York City was established in 1955 with shared funding between the state and the city, but unlike the senior colleges, community college students had to pay tuition. The integration of CUNY's colleges into a single university system took place in 1961, under a chancellor and with state funding.
Paul Iams, an animal nutritionist who graduated from the Ohio State University in 1937, founded the Iams Company in 1946 in a small feed mill near Dayton, Ohio. [5] In 1950, he developed the world's first animal-based protein dry dog food and called it Iams 999. [1] [6] In 1969, Paul Iams wanted to differentiate the new formula from other Iams ...
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City.
As a unified agency managing both the streets and transit system, the SFMTA can use its authority over the city's streets to add bus lanes (the agency maintains 15.6 miles (25.1 km) of bus lanes) [5] and transit signal priority in order to improve service performance for the transit system.