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Petaluma Transit is the public bus service in the city of
Petaluma, California Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its population was 59,776 according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ...
. It operates six local routes and three school routes. Petaluma Paratransit provides
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-mandated paratransit for eligible persons within Petaluma city limits.


History

The city of Petaluma hired
MV Transportation MV Transportation, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is the largest privately owned passenger transportation contracting services firm in the United States. The company can provide paratransit, fixed-route, campus and corporate shuttles, and student ...
to operate fixed-route bus service in 2000, and MV took over the operation of
paratransit Paratransit (also community transport in the United Kingdom, or intermediate public transport) is a type of public transport service that supplements fixed-route mass transit by providing individualized rides without fixed routes or timetables. P ...
service in 2011. MV Transportation's contract renewal in 2018 was scrutinized after a December 2016 incident involving a Petaluma Transit bus, where a pedestrian was hit and seriously injured. All bus and paratransit service became free for a one-year trial period effective July 1, 2024. It was the first Bay Area transit agency to eliminate fares, and the second California agency to eliminate fares after Commerce Transit. Previously, fares
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less than 10% of operations costs.


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* {{San Francisco Bay Area Public Transit Bus transportation in California Public transportation in Sonoma County, California Petaluma, California