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Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, abbreviated SORTA, is the public transport agency serving Cincinnati and its Ohio suburbs. The agency provides Metro transit bus services, as well as Access paratransit services through MV Transportation. SORTA replaced the Cincinnati Transit Commission, which operated buses from 1952 to 1973. The agency currently operates 46 routes and facilitates approximately 48,000 passenger trips each day. SORTA is funded primarily by Cincinnati's city earnings tax, second by fares, and third by federal sources, with some other minor sources. This stands in contrast to other Ohio transit agencies, such as COTA and GCRTA which are primarily funded by sales tax. For a sense of perspective, the portion of Cincinnati's earnings tax going to Metro's budget is about 0.3%. Downtown Cincinnati is also served by the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK), whose transit services extend over the Ohio River into Northern Kentucky. ==Routes== SORTA operates about 40 major fixed bus routes, as well as a demand-responsive paratransit service. Of the major routes, roughly half run only at rush hours and are essentially commuter services, some of them serving the reverse commute. The other half operate throughout the day, and some offer better frequency at the rush hours. Approximately 90% of all trips are made on the all-day routes, 10% on the express commuter routes. In 2012 SORTA released its schedule information in the General Transit Feed Specification, making schedules more easily available to customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.go-metro.com/about-metro/developer-data )〕 SORTA also provides school bus services to Cincinnati Public Schools with vehicles from their fleet of transit buses. School bus routes are technically open to any fare-paying customer, though they are circuitous, not well advertised, and mostly used by CPS students. School bus routes are not listed in the table below. SORTA will operate the Cincinnati streetcar between downtown and Over-the-Rhine when construction is completed.〔 〕 On October 23, 2015, Brad Thomas, a member of SORTA's board, announced that the five different brewers that line the streetcars route had each agreed to brew a new specialty beer to honor the delivery of the first five vehicles.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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