Greater Portland Metro
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For the public transit agency for the Portland, Oregon area, see TriMet.
The Greater Portland METRO is a regional public transportation system, established in 1966, in Southern Maine. Operated by the Greater Portland Transit District, a transit district comprising Portland, Westbrook, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Freeport, and Brunswick,[1] the system also covers Gorham and The Maine Mall portion of South Portland.
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Founded | 1966 (58 years ago) (1966) |
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Headquarters | 114 Valley Street, Portland, Maine |
Locale | Greater Portland, Maine |
Service area | Portland, Brunswick, Gorham, Falmouth, Freeport, South Portland, Westbrook and Yarmouth |
Service type | Bus service, express bus service |
Routes | 11 |
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Fleet | 31 |
Operator | Greater Portland Transit District |
Chief executive | Greg Jordan (as of September 2013) |
Website | Greater Portland METRO |
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METRO is Maine's largest public transportation agency. The transit system's annual ridership was 1,850,686 in 2017.[2]
As of 2016, METRO operated a fleet of eighteen compressed natural gas (CNG) buses and fourteen diesel buses. It operates and maintains the only CNG fuel station in the state of Maine.