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The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) is a major public transportation agency based in Houston, Texas, United States.It operates bus, light rail, bus rapid transit, HOV and HOT lanes, and paratransit service (under the name METROLift) in the city as well as most of Harris County.
On April 29, 2003, an agreement to implement a smart card system between the seven agencies in the Central Puget Sound Regional Fare Coordination Project (Sound Transit, King County Metro, Community Transit, Everett Transit, Pierce Transit, Kitsap Transit, and Washington State Ferries) was signed along with a $43 million contract [1] awarded to ...
Since 2009, the MTA has made several upgrades and expansions to its fleet and facilities. The Flint MTA received a $7.985 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for new Project 25 digital radio dispatch equipment and mobile data terminals, new intelligent transportation system software and equipment ...
Commuter benefits - employer-provided benefits under section 132(f) of the tax code, covering tax-free transit, vanpool, or parking benefits. Commuter highway vehicle - a tax law term for vanpool as defined in section 132(f)(5)(B). Fare card - a card or ticket that a transit rider can use to ride on a public transit system.
MTA Accelerates Rollout of 'eTix' Mobile Device Ticket-Buying App - New Rochelle, NY - All customers of Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road will be able to buy tickets anytime by the end of ...
Contactless trial on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 2007. Subway tokens had been used as the MTA subway and bus systems' form of fare payment since the 1950s. MetroCards made by Cubic Transportation Systems started to replace the tokens in 1992; the MetroCards used magnetic stripes to encode the fare payment.
The MTA took over the operations of the other New York City-area transit systems as well as the TBTA. [72] [73] Moses was relieved from his job as chairman of the TBTA, although he was retained as a consultant. [73] Moses stated that TBTA construction projects would reduce the MTA's budget surplus through 1970. [74]