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About Metro
Metro is a non-profit, tax-funded public service of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA), providing about 17 million rides per year in the Greater Cincinnati area. Find answers to commonly asked questions on Metro’s FAQs.
SORTA Vision:
A regional system connecting our community.
SORTA Mission:
To connect people and places, support economic development and improve quality of life in the region.
Metro is Southwest Ohio's fixed-route bus service. Providing about 17 million rides per year, Metro brings approximately 20% of downtown Cincinnati's workforce into the city. Metro service operates 365 days a year and serves Hamilton County residents, as well as providing commuter routes from Clermont, Warren and Butler counties into Cincinnati.
Metro operates from approximately 4 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. each and every day, out of two operating garages (Bond Hill and Queensgate).
Service background
- Metro has 837 employees, most of which are bus drivers and mechanics.
- Metro operates 348 Metro buses that drive about 11 million miles per year. Metro also owns 44 Access paratransit vehicles.
- Metro offers 26 local-service routes, 19 express routes and 5 Job Connection reverse-commute routes.
- In 2012, Metro and Access provided about 17 million passenger trips.
- Metro provides about 7,000 rides per day to Cincinnati Public School and parochial school junior and senior high school students on school days.
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Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports
We are very proud that the Governmental Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has again awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to SORTA for its comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, representing the 20th consecutive year the Authority has received this award. The Certificate of Achievement is a prestigious national award recognizing conformance to the highest standards for preparation of state and local government financial reports. In order to be awarded a Certificate of Achievement, a government unit must publish an easily-readable and efficiently-organized comprehensive annual financial report, whose contents conform to stringent program standards. The CAFR must satisfy both generally accepted accounting principles and applicable legal requirements. A Certificate of Achievement is valid for a period of one year only. We believe our current report continues to conform to the program requirements, and we have submitted it to GFOA to determine its eligibility for another certificate.
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