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TheRide
The Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority (AAATA), branded as TheRide, is the public transport, public transit system serving the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti area in the U.S. state of Michigan. In fiscal year 2021 (October 2020 – October 2021), the system had a ridership of 1,725,797. History Predecessors Bus service in Ann Arbor began in 1925, when streetcars of the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway were replaced by buses. Multiple privately owned bus companies in Ann Arbor faced financial difficulties beginning in the late 1940s. Great Lakes Greyhound Lines, Great Lakes Greyhound ended its Ann Arbor services in 1957, and its successors faced financial ruin. St. John Transportation Company of Dayton, Ohio began service in 1968, with a guaranteed subsidy from the city. Even with its subsidy, St. John's costs proved higher than expected, and it ceased operations in January 1969. In 1969, the city of Ann Arbor directed the Ann A ...
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The Ride (other)
The Ride may refer to: Transportation * The Ride (MBTA), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's paratransit program * RTD Bus & Rail in Denver, commonly referred to as TheRide * TheRide, the common name of the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority Film and TV * The Ride (1994 film), ''The Ride'' (1994 film), a 1994 Czech drama film * ''The Ride'' (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Michael Biehn * The Ride (2010 film), ''The Ride'' (2010 film), a documentary by Vice * The Ride (2018 film), ''The Ride'' (2018 film), a 2018 film starring Ludacris * The Ride (2022 film), ''The Ride'' (2022 film), a 2022 film starring Paul Sorvino * The Ride (The Sopranos), "The Ride" (''The Sopranos''), a 2006 episode of ''The Sopranos'' * The Ride (Forgotten Realms), an area of the Moonsea region in Forgotten Realms * The Ride (TV series), ''The Ride'' (TV series), a 2023 TV series about professional bull riding Music * WXRC, a Charlotte, North Carolina, US radio station known as 95.7 The Rid ...
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Ypsilanti Transit Center
The Ypsilanti Transit Center (also known as the YTC) is the secondary hub for the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority, the primary public transit service running in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and surrounding communities in Washtenaw County, Michigan. It serves roughly 101,000 bus arrivals and departures per year, providing the primary service hub for the 8.8% of Ypsilanti residents who commute by transit. Services For a long time, the AAATA lacked the staff necessary to staff the information window at the YTC. However, thanks in part to a new property tax approved in August 2022, the YTC got full-time staffing for the information desk beginning on 1 August 2023. These staff sell tokens and passes to riders in addition to answering questions and providing information. The transit center also includes an indoor waiting area and restrooms. Expansion project In 2017, the AAATA started work on a project to improve the YTC. In January 2023, Rep. Debbie Dingell Deborah Ann Ding ...
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Blake Transit Center
The Blake Transit Center (BTC) is a major public transit station in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the main hub for TheRide, serving as the terminus and transfer point for 17 Ann Arbor-based routes in the system's hub-and-spoke bus network. It also serves as a transfer point for multiple intercity bus services. The current building is the second Blake Transit Center, built in the early 2010s to replace a smaller building on the west side of the block that could no longer manage the increased utilization. Service The Blake is the largest of the AAATA's three transit centers, serving as a destination for 17 routes. It serves as the main hub for Ann Arbor's hub-and-spoke bus transportation model. Four of these routes (3, 4, 5 and 6) connect the Blake to the smaller Ypsilanti Transit Center by various routes. Regional service In addition to serving local routes, the BTC is also the Ann Arbor terminus of the D2A2, an hourly express bus service to Grand Circus Park in do ...
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti ( ), commonly shortened to Ypsi ( ), is a college town and city located on the Huron River in Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 20,648. The city is bounded to the north by Superior Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, Superior Charter Township and on the west, south, and east by Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, Ypsilanti Charter Township (a separately governed municipality). Ypsilanti is a part of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor–Ypsilanti metropolitan area, the Huron River, Huron River Valley, the Metro Detroit, Detroit–Warren–Ann Arbor combined statistical area, and the Great Lakes megalopolis. The city is also the home of Eastern Michigan University (EMU). Ypsilanti is known for being the home of Eastern Michigan University (formerly the Michigan State Normal College) since the university's founding as Michigan's first normal school (teachers' c ...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the List of municipalities in Michigan, fifth-most populous city in Michigan. Located on the Huron River, Ann Arbor is the principal city of its Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County and had 372,258 residents in 2020. Ann Arbor is included in the Metro Detroit, Detroit–Warren–Ann Arbor combined statistical area and the Great Lakes megalopolis. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by John Allen (pioneer), John Allen and Elisha Rumsey. It was named after the wives of the village's founders, both named Ann, and the stands of Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak trees they found at the site of the town. The University of Michigan was established in Ann Arbor in 1837, and the city's population grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. A college town, ...
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New Flyer
New Flyer is a Canadian multinational Bus manufacturing, bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Canada and the United States that produce the company's main product, the New Flyer Xcelsior family of buses. This company was formed in 1930 as Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd. as a company that primarily sold buses in Western Canada before changing its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948. Western Flyer Coach was taken over by the Government of Manitoba in 1971, becoming Flyer Industries Limited and was acquired by Netherlands, Dutch-based manufacturer Den Oudsten in 1986, renaming Flyer to New Flyer Industries Limited. KPS Capital acquired New Flyer in 2002, resulting the manufacturer going public in 2005, becoming New Flyer Industries Canada ULC. New Flyer operates multiple production plants in Winnipeg, Manitoba; ...
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Capital Metro
The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, officially stylized as CapMetro, is a public transportation provider located in Austin, Texas. It operates bus, paratransit services and a hybrid rail system known as CapMetro Rail in Austin and several suburbs in Travis and Williamson counties. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Voters approved the creation of CapMetro in January 1985, agreeing to fund the organization with a one percent sales tax. Operations began in July 1985 and CapMetro took over City of Austin bus services in 1986. In 2010, the CapMetro Rail Red Line, the agency's first rail service, began operations. History Predecessors The predecessors of CapMetro date back to the late 1800s with the establishment of streetcar services in Austin. In 1874, the City of Austin granted the Austin City Railroad Company a franchise for a "horse or mule railroad" on Congress Avenue, Pecan Street (since renamed Sixth Street), and 11th Stre ...
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American Public Transit Association
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is a nonprofit group of approximately 1,500 public and private sector member organizations that promotes and advocates for the interests of the public transportation industry in the United States. APTA represents all modes of public transportation, including bus, paratransit, light rail, commuter rail, subways, waterborne services, and intercity and high-speed passenger rail. More than 90 percent of the people using public transportation in the United States ride on APTA member systems. APTA's membership consists of more than 320 public transit agencies, including New York MTA, the nation's largest transit system, as well as transportation-related businesses and organizations. Members are engaged in every aspect of the industry – from planning, designing, financing, constructing and operating transit systems to the research, development, manufacturing and maintenance of vehicles, equipment and transit-related products and ...
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Washtenaw Community College
Washtenaw Community College (WCC) is a public community college in Ann Arbor Charter Township, Michigan.Zoning Map
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Founded in 1965, WCC enrolls more than 20,000 students from over 100 countries to study each year and grants certificates and degrees to over 2,600 students annually.


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The college offers approximately 137 credit programs in business, health, advanced manufacturing and skilled trades, public servic ...
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New Flyer Low Floor
The New Flyer Low Floor is a line of low-floor transit buses that was manufactured by New Flyer Industries between 1991 and 2014. It was available in 30-foot rigid, 35-foot rigid, 40-foot rigid, and 60-foot articulated lengths. In addition to the different available lengths, the buses were sold with a variety of prime movers, ranging from conventional diesel and CNG combustion engines to diesel-electric hybrid, gasoline hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cell. The New Flyer Low Floor was restyled in 2005, resulting in two distinct variants: the Low Floor Restyled (LFR), which largely replaced the conventional Low Floor for transit service, and the Low Floor Advanced (LFA), which was intended for bus rapid transit service. New Flyer introduced the Invero in 1999 with the intent that it would replace the Low Floor line, but few were sold; in 2008, New Flyer introduced the Xcelsior, and the Low Floor line was discontinued by 2014. Design For example, a New Flyer DE40LFR is a 40-f ...
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Demand-responsive Transport
Demand-responsive transport (DRT), also known as demand-responsive transit, demand-responsive service,
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Dial-a-Ride transit (sometimes DART), flexible transport services,CONNECT is a Coordination Action in the Sustainable Development Thematic Area of the European Union's 6th Framework Program, successfully ended on December 2005
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