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Greater Bridgeport Transit
Greater Bridgeport Transit (GBT) is a Mass transit, transit service serving the Greater Bridgeport region of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Greater Bridgeport Transit was established in 1971 in anticipation of diminished bus service by the Connecticut Company, which officially ceased operations in Bridgeport in 1972. GBT provides local bus service to the cities/towns of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull, Stratford, Connecticut, Stratford, Milford, Connecticut, Milford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield, Westport, Connecticut, Westport, Shelton, Connecticut, Shelton, and Monroe, Connecticut, Monroe. The fleet is composed of mainly New Flyer Xcelsior and New Flyer Low Floor, as well as Gillig Low Floor, two Proterra ZX5 models, and two Proterra Catalyst BE40 models, which have since been pulled from service for unknown reasons. Ticketing GBT uses a system called ZipTrip for fare collection. This acts as any other pass or transfer would, permittin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Proterra ZX5
The ZX5 is a battery-electric, low-floor transit bus that was developed and originally manufactured by Proterra from 2020, and is since 2024 manufactured by Phoenix Motorcars. History On September 15, 2020, Proterra announced the replacement to the Catalyst, the ZX5, available in nominal lengths. Edmonton Transit System of Edmonton, Alberta was the launch customer for the 40-foot ZX5. Background Design updates The ZX5 features the same fiberglass and balsa wood body structure as the Catalyst, but incorporate design changes to both increase battery capacity and standardization with electric vehicle charging protocols. The overall appearance of the vehicle is more angular, while the roof fairing is more streamlined with provisions for roof-mounted battery packs, as well as optional integrated roof charger rails. The redesigned roof fairing has decreased overall height by compared to the Catalyst. Multiple battery options are offered on the ZX5, designated ZX5, ZX5+, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transportation In Fairfield County, Connecticut
Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipelines, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Established In 1971
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevalent f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Transportation In Connecticut
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership. Although the average bus carries between 30 and 100 passengers, some buses have a capacity of up to 300 passengers. The most common type is the single-deck rigid bus, with double-decker and articulated buses carrying larger loads, and midibuses and minibuses carrying smaller loads. Coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus, are free. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special large vehicle licence above and beyond a regular driving li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GBT ZipTrip Ticket
GBT may refer to: Transport * Gambat railway station, in Pakistan * Gorgan Airport, in Iran * Gotthard Base Tunnel, in Switzerland * Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority, in Connecticut Other uses * Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium, in Surabaya, Indonesia * Generalised beam theory, in structural engineering * Global Bio-Chem, a Hong Kong biotechnology company * Government and binding theory, in linguistics * Great Baikal Trail, a Russian environmental organisation * Green Bank Telescope The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany. The Green Bank site was part of the National Rad ..., in West Virginia * G-TELP Business Test, English language test * Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwalk Transit District
The Norwalk Transit District (NTD) is the primary provider of public transportation services in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, and surrounding communities. The local Norwalk fixed-route bus rapid transit, bus transit system, is the primary service of the district linking Norwalk and its immediate suburbs. The agency also operates regional bus service as far east as Milford, Connecticut, Milford (with Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority, GBT and Milford Transit District) and commuter shuttles to Metro-North Railroad, Metro-North stations. Wheels2U microtransit services operate in Norwalk and Westport. Paratransit door-to-door services are available for residents in the service area unable to use regular transit services or, on a limited basis, are age 65 or older. Norwalk Transit contracts with local transportation service providers to perform some of the door-to-door services, and is also the provider of public transit for the Westport Transit District. The city of Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milford Transit District
Milford Transit District is the primary provider of mass transportation in Milford, Connecticut, United States. Two routes provided by the agency operate Monday-Saturday, and one route operates Monday-Friday. Routes/Schedules Coastal Link Milford Transit District also partially maintains bus service from early mornings to early evenings on the Coastal Link (formerly Route 2) seven days a week. providing service from the Connecticut Post Mall in Milford, Connecticut to the Bridgeport bus station in Bridgeport, Connecticut which also connects to rail service at the Bridgeport station (Connecticut) for the New Haven Line and from there on to the Wheels Hub in Norwalk, Connecticut. The service runs in conjunction with Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority and Norwalk Transit District using their buses as well. Frequency is roughly every 30 minutes. Silver Sands Shuttle Milford Transit District operates a free seasonal out-and-back shuttle service from the Old Gate Lane Commuter p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The city, part of the New York metropolitan area, New York Metropolitan Area, is the List of municipalities of Connecticut by population, sixth-most populous city in Connecticut as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, with a population of 91,184. Norwalk is on the northern shore of Long Island Sound and was first settled in 1649. History Roger Ludlow purchased the areas east of the Norwalk River from Chief Mahackemo of the Norwaake (or Naramauke) Indians in 1640. Norwalk was settled in 1649, incorporated September 1651, and named after the Mohegan-Pequot language, Algonquin word , meaning "point of land", or more probably from the Native American name "Naramauke". The Battle of Norwalk took place during the Revolutionary War, and led to the burning of most of the town. In 1836, the borough of Norwalk was created, covering the central area of the town. In 1853, the first ever train disaster in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Haven Line
The New Haven Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Metro-North Railroad in the U.S. states of New York (state), New York and Connecticut. Running from New Haven, Connecticut, to New York City, the New Haven Line joins the Harlem Line in Mount Vernon, New York, and continues south to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The New Haven Line carries 125,000 passengers every weekday and 39 million passengers a year. The busiest intermediate station is , with 8.4 million passengers, or 21% of the line's ridership. The line was originally part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, forming the southern leg of the New Haven's main line. It is spot color, colored red on Metro-North public transport timetable, timetables and system maps, and stations on the line have red trim. The red color code, color-coding is a nod to the red paint used in the New Haven's paint scheme for much of the last decade of its history. The section from Grand Central to the New York-Connect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgeport Station (Connecticut)
Bridgeport station is a shared Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad train station along the Northeast Corridor serving Bridgeport, Connecticut and nearby towns. On Metro-North, the station is the transfer point between the Waterbury Branch and the main New Haven Line. Amtrak's inter-city ''Northeast Regional'' and '' Vermonter'' service also stop at the station. In addition the transfer point for Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority buses, the departure point for the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry across Long Island Sound to Port Jefferson, New York, and both the Total Mortgage Arena and the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater are located adjacent to the station. History The current station was built under ConnDOT and Penn Central in 1975. It replaced a large, ornate structure built in 1905, located to the north of the current station at . A branch line, originally built by New Haven Railroad predecessor Housatonic Railroad to Trumbull, Monroe and Newtown, used to join the main tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut Post Mall
The Connecticut Post Mall is a super-regional shopping center located on U.S. Route 1 in Milford, Connecticut. The center comprises 1.3 million square feet of leasable space and features 125 stores. It is the largest mall in the state of Connecticut. General History Initial plans for the mall, originally named the Connecticut Post Shopping Center, were unveiled in 1957 by developer Sol G. Atlas. The plans proposed construction of an open-air center comprising 918,000 square feet of retail space featuring 80 stores, with surface parking for 5,600 cars. The site, totaling 75.4 acres, was previously owned by the Woodruff Seed Company. The Atlas firm selected a Milford architect, Jesse James Hamblin, to design the center. Development of the site started in late 1957, with construction on structures beginning in early 1958. The center was completed in 1960. Initial Reception The center opened to the public on September 14, 1960. The opening ceremony drew 65,000 attendees, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
