Central New York Regional Transportation Authority
 |
|
| Slogan | Easy to use, hard to beat. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | One Centro Center |
| Locale | Syracuse |
| Service type | Bus Transit |
| Fleet | 287 |
| Daily ridership | Approximately 50,000 |
| Fuel type | Diesel, CNG, Diesel-electric hybrid |
| Website | www.centro.org |
The Central New York Regional Transportation Authority (Centro) is the operator of mass transit in Onondaga, Oswego, Cayuga, and Oneida counties in New York state. The CNYRTA was formed on August 1, 1970, along with similar agencies in Rochester, Albany, and Buffalo. CENTRO won the American Public Transportation Association's 2006 "Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement Award" for bus companies serving 4 million to 30 million riders a year.
Centro operates four separate systems concentrated in the urban areas of the counties served. Each operates based on a hub-and-spoke route system with downtown transfer centers, although efforts have been made in recent years in the Syracuse area to provide direct services between outlying points without requiring passengers to change buses downtown.
Initially, Centro operations consisted of the local bus services in each city and private coach lines continued to provide intercity connecting service between the various counties. Although the private firms later received public subsidies, the economics of providing those services gradually declined and most of these routes were taken over by the CNYRTA as noted below.
The main service area is the city of Syracuse and suburban Onondaga County. Centro took over the assets and operations of the Syracuse Transit Corporation on January 17, 1972, and those of the suburban Syracuse & Eastern Transit Corp. in 1974. Most routes begin in Downtown Syracuse, spread out through the city, and connect with the rest of Onondaga County. CNY Centro also operates Syracuse University shuttle routes and Syracuse City School District routes for high school students. Since 1989 all Centro routes in the Syracuse area are accessible to wheelchair patrons.
...
Wikipedia