Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

Regional Transit Authority

A Red Line train at Airport station
Founded	December 30, 1974
Headquarters	1240 West 6th Street, Downtown, Cleveland, Ohio
Locale	Cleveland, Ohio
Service type	Bus and Rapid Transit
Routes	Bus: 37, Rail: 4, Trolley: 1, BRT: 3
Fleet	Bus: 391, Rail: 92, Trolley: 12, BRT: 40
Daily ridership	75,300 (weekdays, Q4 2023)[1]
Annual ridership	22,431,500 (2023)[2]
Chief executive	India Birdsong Terry[3]
Website	riderta.com

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, with a ridership of 22,431,500, or about 75,300 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.

RTA owns and operates the RTA Rapid Transit rail system (called "The Rapid" by area residents), which consists of one heavy rail line (the Red Line) and three light rail lines (Blue, Green, Waterfront). The bulk of RTA's service consists of buses, including regular routes, express or flyer buses, loop and paratransit buses. In December 2004, RTA adopted a revised master plan, Transit 2025, in which several rail extensions, bus line improvements and transit oriented developments are discussed.^[4]

RTA's major predecessor, the Cleveland Transit System, was the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.^[5]

In 2007, RTA was named the best public transit system in North America by the American Public Transportation Association, for "demonstrating achievement in efficiency and effectiveness."^[6]