Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority
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| Slogan | it's Time to Ride |
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| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | 4 South Main St, Dayton, Ohio |
| Service area | Montgomery County and Greene County, Ohio |
| Service type | bus service, express bus, paratransit |
| Routes | 29 |
| Stops | 3,300 |
| Hubs | Eastown Shopping Center Westown Shopping Center Northwest South (Dayton Mall) Wright Stop Plaza(Downtown Dayton) |
| Stations | Maintenance Facilities, 600 Longworth St, Dayton |
| Fleet | 284 |
| Annual ridership | 11.6 million |
| Fuel type | Diesel, Electric and Hybrid |
| Operator | 350 |
| Website | GDRTA |
The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, formerly known as the Miami Valley RTA, is a public transit agency that generally serves the greater Dayton, Ohio area. The GDRTA serves communities within Montgomery County and parts of Greene County, Ohio, USA. There are 31 routes. The buses operate seven days a week, 21 hours a day, and provide services to many citizens within the area. RTA's current executive director is Mark Donaghy.
Greater Dayton RTA is Ohio’s fourth-largest public transit system, serving Dayton and 23 surrounding communities in Montgomery County and parts of Greene County. RTA provides more than 11 million passenger trips per year on its buses.
The Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority (now the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, or RTA) took over public transit operations in November 1972.
One notable feature of the GDRTA system is its use of electric trolley buses. Only five cities in the United States currently have electric trolley buses: Boston, Dayton, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) operation in Ohio occurred in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Linden–Salem line was converted from streetcars to trackless trolleys — or trolley buses, as they are most commonly known today. The RTA renewed its commitment to electric transit with a Board of Trustees vote to continue the trolley bus service in 1991, and the purchase of a new fleet of ETBs from Electric Transit, Inc., a joint venture of the Czech company Skoda and the U.S. company AAI Corporation, based on Skoda's model 14Tr. Final assembly of the vehicles took place in Dayton in 1995–98. In 2014, the system began adding their first fleet of low floor trolleybuses from Vossloh Kiepe, using equipment from Gillig. Electric streetcar service in Dayton had started in 1888, and it continued through to, and indeed beyond, the start of trolley bus service. Therefore, electric transit service has been operated continuously in Dayton since 1888, which is longer than in any other city in the United States.
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