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Rock Region METRO
The Rock Region METRO (METRO) is the largest transit agency in Arkansas. METRO provides public transportation services for the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area seven days a week. The twenty-two (22) fixed routes and four (4) express commuter routes provide transportation service to 10,000 riders every weekday. A demand response ADA para-transit service, known as LINKS, operates alongside the fixed route hours and coverage area. A heritage streetcar system, known as the METRO Streetcar, operates 3.4 miles of track throughout the Little Rock and North Little Rock downtowns.
==Background==
Prior to the creation of the former Central Arkansas Transit Authority, the transit system was owned and operated by private companies. Until 1950, the transit system was owned by Arkansas Power & Light (AP&L). In 1950, AP&L sold the transit system, Capital Transportation Company (CTC), to a group of local investors. A strike by the transit union, Amalgamated Transit Union Division 704, in 1955-1956 left the company with a damaged reputation and exacerbated existing financial problems. The governments of Little Rock and North Little Rock awarded the franchise to a new company, Citizens' Coach Company (CCC), on February 28, 1956. Although the new company was backed by a group of local unions, the same financial problems that CTC encountered led to the demise of CCC by 1962. The declining passenger revenue and rising wages left few resources to maintain the bus fleet. Following the takeover of the transit system by Twin City Transit (TCT) on September 25, 1962, the federal government began offering funds to struggling transit systems through various assistance programs. This funding assisted TCT with purchasing new buses, and TCT experienced some financial success. But the increase in passenger revenue was temporary as TCT could not keep up with offering service in the expanding cities without continuing to receive fare increases. A 1971 study recommended that the transit system shift to public ownership under the direction of a regional authority. Central Arkansas Transit commenced operations under the trusteeship of Metroplan on May 1, 1972. As a regional planning entity, Metroplan lacked the resources to supervise a transit operation indefinitely. Local government partners were being asked to infuse more money into the operation, and wanted more of a direct say than the 1972 agreement granted. On July 14, 1986, CATA was chartered when Pulaski County and the cities of Little Rock, North Little Rock, Cammack Village, Maumelle, Sherwood, and Jacksonville entered into an interlocal agreement that established CATA as a public corporation.〔A Call for Regional Leadership: Public Transit in Central Arkansas〕 On August 12, 2015, the Central Arkansas Transit Authority officially rebranded as Rock Region METRO.〔(CENTRAL ARKANSAS TRANSIT BECOMES ROCK REGION METRO )〕
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