Metropolitan Transportation Authority - LA Revenue and Competitors

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is unique among the nation’s transportation agencies. It serves as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the country’s largest, most populous counties. More than 9.6 million people – nearly one-third of California’s residents – live, work, and play within its 1,433-square-mile service area. Besides operating over 1,900 coaches in the Metro Bus fleet, MTA also designed, built and now operates almost 60 miles of Metro Rail service. The Metro Rail system currently consists of 50 stations and several more are in the planning and/or design stage. In addition to operating its own services MTA funds 16 municipal bus operators and funds a wide array of transportation projects including bikeways and pedestrian facilities, local road and highway improvements, goods movement, and the popular Freeway Service Patrol and Call Boxes. Recognizing that no one form of transit can solve urban congestion problems, MTA’s multimodal approach uses a variety of transportation alternatives to meet the needs of the highly diverse population in the region. The "M" logo of MTA's Metro System is the public symbol of this fully-coordinated network. MTA employs more than 8,000 people in a broad range of technical specialties and services ranging from Metro Bus and Metro Rail operators and mechanics to construction engineers and safety inspectors, from transportation planning professionals to customer information agents.