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The Cincinnati Bell Connector was operated by SORTA until 2019; the City of Cincinnati has since owned and operated the streetcar. Until 2021, SORTA Metro was funded primarily by Cincinnati's city earnings tax, second by fares, and third by federal sources, with some other minor sources.
In 2021, COTA introduced a new fare system, based on the Transit app, which caps fares at $4.50 per day or $62 per month. The agency is also transitioning to cash-free fares, though it added about 400 retailers in Central Ohio into a network, allowing riders to add cash to their accounts at the retail stores. [29]
Service from Middletown to West Chester and Cincinnati has been proposed numerous times in recent years. [4] The service would utilize commuter buses and provide express service to downtown Cincinnati. [5] Previously commuter buses connected Middletown, Monroe and Dayton, where riders could transfer to the Dayton RTA. [6]
MetroMoves was a 2002 proposal by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) to expand and improve public transportation in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. [1] The 30-year vision included the addition of light rail lines, commuter rail lines , streetcars in the downtown area, and expanded bus routes. [ 2 ]
Fares made up, on average, 12.5% of transit agencies’ operating expenses in 2021, down from 31.4% in 2019, according to the American Public Transit Association.
Metro's strict attention to safety has resulted in the transit system outperforming its peers in the areas of injuries and collisions.
The two fixed routes are express routes from suburban areas to Downtown Cincinnati. Three Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority bus routes (28, 29X, 82X) also extend into the county with funding from CTC. CTC was founded in 1977 as Clermont Area Rural Transit (CART). [1]
Downtown Cincinnati in July 2019. Transportation in Cincinnati includes sidewalks, roads, public transit, bicycle paths, and regional and international airports. Most trips are made by car, with transit and bicycles having a relatively low share of total trips; in a region of just over 2 million people, less than 80,000 trips [1] are made with transit on an average day.