Transit district
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A transit district or transit authority is a
A transit district may operate bus, rail or other types of transport including ferry service, or may operate other facilities. In some cases, the transit district may be part of a larger organization such as a state Department of Transportation.
Australia
- The TransLink Transit Authority which manages buses, trains and ferries in South East Queensland, Australia.
Austria
With seven transport associations responsible for the nine federal states of Austria, it is the only country in the world that has transport associations for each federal state except for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland which are organised in one association (Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region).
Canada
In Canada, transit (or transport or transportation) is mostly of the domain of
France
Germany
As part of the big deregulation package passed by the Bundestag in 1993, which mainly merged the two state railways of West and East Germany into one single company governed by private law instead of public law, regional transport and transit had been assigned to the Bundesländer (federal states), who had each to pass their own individual law regulating public transit, whereby "regional" was defined as journeys "typically not over distances more than 50 km (30 mi), and not taking longer than one hour".
Sweden
Providing public transit is the joint responsibility of the local county and municipal governments per The Public Transportation Act (2010:1065). Transit is most often organised on the county level, but in the sparsely populated north, some municipalities opt to run a city bus network separated from the county network.
Some counties opt to run joint commuter train networks In the north, this is also done with coaches which run on lines, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long.
United Kingdom
United States
In the United States, a transit district is a
A transit district is created to give it the power of the government in dealing with solving problems related to
Some of the more famous transit districts in the U.S. include:
- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), serving 12 counties in southeastern New York state including New York City, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation;
- The New York City Transit Authority which operates New York City's subway trains and municipal buses;[1]
- The World Trade Centercomplex;
- The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates the bus and Metrorail system in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland and Virginia;
- The former Southern California Rapid Transit District, which operated most of the bus systems in Los Angeles County, California as well as parts of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties from August 18, 1964, until April 1, 1993, when it was converted into the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority;
- The Chicago 'L';
- The Link (light rail), and ST Express bus service in the Seattle metropolitan area;
- The Utah Transit Authority (UTA), which operates the FrontRunner (commuter rail), TRAX (light rail), and bus service along the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake-Odgen-Provo metropolitan area);