Riverside Transit Agency
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| Founded | 1975 |
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| Headquarters | 1825 Third Street Riverside, CA 92517-1968 |
| Service area | Western Riverside County, California, United States |
| Service type | Bus service, paratransit |
| Routes | 42 |
| Fleet | 289 |
| Fuel type | Compressed natural gas |
| Website | http://www.riversidetransit.com |
The Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) is the main transit agency for western Riverside County, California, United States. RTA provides both local and regional services throughout the region with 34 fixed-routes, eight CommuterLink routes, and Dial-A-Ride services using 289 vehicles. In the cities of Corona, Beaumont and Banning, RTA coordinates regional services with municipal transit systems. In Riverside, RTA coordinates with the city's Riverside Special Services, which provides ADA complementary service to RTA's fixed-route services.
RTA was established as a joint powers agency on August 15, 1975 and began operating bus service on March 16, 1977.
RTA experienced record ridership in Fiscal Year 2014 with over 9.5 million boardings.
RTA is governed by a board of directors composed of 22 elected officials from 18 cities in western Riverside County and four members of the County Board of Supervisors.
The member jurisdictions include the cities of Beaumont, Corona, Hemet, Lake Elsinore, Moreno Valley, Menifee, Murrieta, Norco, Perris, Riverside, San Jacinto, Temecula, Wildomar and the unincorporated areas of Riverside County Supervisorial Districts I, II, III and V.
RTA’s service consists of 34 local fixed routes and 8 commuter express routes. The fixed-route service includes tourist trolleys (stylized rubber-tired buses, not to be confused with actual trolleys). The agency also provides dial-a-ride service in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In 2003, RTA launched CommuterLink, its first bus service designed to serve Riverside County’s growing number of commuters. The specially designed express buses have limited stop service to major transit centers and Metrolink stations in Riverside county. In 2005, RTA debuted free Wi-Fi Internet service aboard its Temecula-Riverside CommuterLink Route 202, making the agency among the first in Southern California to offer such amenities aboard public buses. By the end of 2016, Wi-fi will be offered on all of the agency's fixed-route buses .
RTA plans on implementing a limited-stop system called RapidLink along Magnolia Avenue, from Riverside to Corona, largely paralleling the existing Route 1 with limited stops and traffic-signal priority. The project as proposed would closely resemble LACMTA's Metro Rapid lines, with buses traveling in mixed traffic rather than a dedicated lane. Dubbed the Gold Line, the service is expected to begin operating in 2017.
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