Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority

Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority

The Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority (AMA) provides local and regional bus service in the San Juan metropolitan area.
Founded	May 11, 1959
Headquarters	37 De Diego Ave, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927
Service area	San Juan metropolitan area
Service type	Public transport
Alliance	Tren Urbano and Cataño Ferry
Routes	31
Hubs	10
Daily ridership	35,000[1]
Fuel type	Diesel Hybrid Electric
Website	ati.pr

The Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority —Spanish: Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses de Puerto Rico (AMA)— is a government-owned corporation and public transport bus service based in the San Juan metropolitan area. It is adscribed to the Department of Transportation and Public Works of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Integrated Transit Authority (ATI).

Background

Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses was created as a public corporation on May 11, 1959. The operations would later be integrated into the Department of Transportation and Public Works in 1973 and the Integrated Transit Authority in 2014. It is the second oldest public transport authority in America, behind New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

AMA is one of three major public transportation systems serving the San Juan metropolitan area, along with Tren Urbano and the Cataño Ferry. All system ridership combined is estimated at 80,000 people on work days.^[2]

Service

San Juan metropolitan area transit map published by DTOP in 2015

AMA provides bus transportation in the San Juan metropolitan area—which includes the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo, Bayamón, Trujillo Alto, Cataño, Toa Baja, Carolina, and Loíza—through a network of 31 fixed bus routes.

Most routes work Monday through Friday from 5:00AM to 9:00PM; and Saturdays and holidays from 6:00AM to 8:00PM. Routes E40 and T3 are the only routes with service on Sundays, along with Tren Urbano and the Cataño Ferry.

All bus stops are identified with a sign with the word Parada (stop). To help the driver, please wave as the bus approaches.

Fares

The regular service fare is $0.75 per ride. The only bus route with a different fare is Route E20 with a $2.00 cost per ride. Reduced fares are available for students, seniors, and people with disabilities.

All buses require exact change in coins or the use of a magnetic fare card available at Tren Urbano stations.

Routes

Active Bus Fleet

Sagrado Corazón Station

AMA has a total of 149 buses in its active fleet, being the NovaBus RTS's built in 2002 the oldest active fleet model, and the newest being the NovaBus Smart LFS built in 2013. In addition, AMA also operates a fleet of Orion V, Orion VII, NGNew Flyer DE35LF, and a sub fleet of 10 Baby RTS which are used on shorter and lighter routes.

First Transit, which operates seven routes under contract, works with a fleet of Gillig Low Floors built in 2009, and NABI 42-BRT and 60-BRT for Metro Urbano (E20 route) built in 2012. The 60-BRT will be AMA's first low-floor articulated bus. This will mark only the second-time articulated buses have been used on the island; in 1984 AMA receive their first fleet of articulated buses, the MAN SG-310.

Complete Coach Works in Carolina is currently rehabbing AMA's fleet of 10 Baby RTS's from 2002 as well as the Orion V's.

In 2015, AMA introduced the first suburban bus fleet with 33 Ford Super Duty Glaval buses.

Notes

• 1: Operated under contract by First Transit
• 2: Used on route E20 (Metro Urbano)

Inactive Bus Fleet

See also

• Tren Urbano
• Cataño Ferry
• Transportation in Puerto Rico

References

External links

• Tren Urbano App (unofficial)