Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides local and express bus, subway, and commuter rail service in Greater New York, and operates multiple toll bridges and tunnels in New York City.
Overview
Owner	State of New York
Locale	New York City Long Island Lower Hudson Valley Coastal Connecticut Lower Housatonic Valley Lower Naugatuck River Valley
Transit type	Commuter rail, local and express bus, subway, bus rapid transit
Number of lines	19 commuter rail routes 8 Metro-North routes 11 LIRR routes 26 rapid transit routes 25 subway routes 1 Staten Island Railway route 325 bus routes 234 local routes 71 express routes 20 Select Bus Service routes
Daily ridership	8.6 million (2017 weekday average)[1]
Annual ridership	2.658 billion (2017)[1]
Key people	Janno Lieber, Chairman & CEO[2]
Headquarters	2 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City
Website	new.mta.info
Operation
Began operation	June 1, 1965[3]
Operator(s)	MTA Long Island Rail Road MTA Metro-North Railroad MTA New York City Subway MTA Regional Bus Operations MTA Staten Island Railway
Number of vehicles	2,429 commuter rail cars 6,418 subway cars 61 SIR cars 5,725 buses[1]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in North America, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.