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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.
SmarTrip was the first contactless smart card for transit in the United States [23] when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18, 1999. [24] By 2004, 650,000 SmarTrip cards were in circulation. [25]
Here are the categories, as described in an MTA press release: How to Improve the NYC Subway’s Signal System: Address the aging signal system in a faster and more efficient way to enable the MTA ...
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.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit operates more than 60 park-and-ride lots in Allegheny County. It owns 66 transit bridges, 11 highway bridges and four tunnels. [54] Under the PRT-sponsored ACCESS program, a private contractor provides door-to-door service to elderly and disabled passengers throughout the county, seven days a week from 6 a.m. to ...
In 2017, MTA introduced a new mobile ticketing app called CharmPass, which allows passengers to pay fares on all MTA services using mobile devices. [25] [26] As of February 2023, the MTA is procuring modern replacements for CharmCard and CharmPass, which are "quickly reaching end-of-life". [26]
MTA To Give Student Bus Riders Free MetroCards - New York City, NY - Kids who currently take the bus to school for half-price will pay nothing under a new $200,000 plan, the MTA says.
Pasadena Transit, formerly known as Pasadena Area Rapid Transit System (Pasadena ARTS), is the transit bus service in the city of Pasadena, California. The system was launched as a single shuttle route ahead of the 1994 FIFA World Cup at the Rose Bowl .