Maryland Transit Administration: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Maryland Transit Administration, formerly known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority then the Mass Transit Administration, which took over the operation of the Baltimore Transit Company, is a metropolitan transit service serving all of Baltimore, Maryland and the surrounding areas.

The Maryland Transit Administration current fleet of buses contains Flxibles (formerly known as Grumman Flxible) buses that were ordered from 1980-1995, North American Bus Industries (NABI) buses ordered from 1995-2000, a fleet of articulated buses from NABI in 1996, and its most recent order, in 2003, a set of low-floor buses from Neoplan. It's been said that the Maryland Transit Administration might order more articulated buses in 2004 or 2005 from Neoplan. It's been said that in early 2004, the Maryland Transit Administration is going to order more low floor buses but this time from New Flyer.

The Maryland Transit Administration also has two forms of rapid transit. A light rail system and a Metro subway system. The light rail leads from BWI Airport to Lutherville, Maryland. The subway system leads from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland to Owings Mills, Maryland. For more information on these systems, see the article on Rail transit in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Maryland Transit Administration is currently (as of Wednesday, November 5th, 2003) double-tracking its light rail system and sending their Metro cars to be rehabbed. The Maryland Transit Administration is also competing with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to obtain federal funding to build a maglev route from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.