Manchester Transit Authority

For other uses of the abbreviation MTA, see MTA (disambiguation).

Manchester Transit Authority

Founded	1973
Headquarters	110 Elm St, Manchester, NH
Locale	Manchester, New Hampshire
Service type	bus service
Routes	11
Hubs	Veterans Park
Fleet	Gillig 29' Low-Floor
Operator	First Transit
Chief executive	Mike Whitten
Web site	mtabus.org

The Manchester Transit Authority, or MTA, is a public transportation provider in Manchester, New Hampshire. It was founded in 1973 and operates 11 regular bus routes through the city, including a free downtown circulator. In general, service is hourly, with more frequent service along corridors served by multiple routes, and especially on the downtown circulator. It is a hub and spoke system that meets downtown at Veterans Park (labeled as Center of NH on southbound departing lines) with one line departing from the nearby Canal Street Transportation Center. Service is generally limited to the city of Manchester, with a few lines extending into the neighboring towns of Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett and Londonderry, and one line running express to Nashua.

Route list

• Downtown Circulator
• Route 1 Healthcare Shuttle / East Side Plaza
• Route 2 Hanover St. / E. Industrial Park
• Route 3 Brown Ave. / Airport
• Route 5 SNHU / River Rd.
• Route 6 Bremer St. / Mast Rd.
• Route 8 South Willow St. / Mall of NH
• Route 9 Nashua Express
• Route 10 Valley St. / Mall of NH
• Route 11 Front St. / Hackett Hill Rd.
• Route 12 So. Beech St. / Mall of NH
• Route 13 Bedford Grove / Second Street

Circulators and Shopper Shuttles

• The Downtown Circulator operates for free as a weekday, figure-eight loop through the Millyard and Downtown every ten minutes during peak hours and every twenty minutes during off-peak hours.
• Route 1 operates as a Healthcare Shuttle connecting Elliot Hospital, Doctors Park on Tarrytown Road, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, Veterans Administration Hospital and the Manchester Mental Health, and is funded through a grant from the FTA.^[1]
• The MTA also operates two Shopper Shuttles, which run only on select days of the week and are funded by private retailers, but which offer free service mostly targeted at senior citizens.

References

1. ^ http://www.fta.dot.gov/news/news_events_11820.html

External links

• Manchester Transit Authority official website
• Downtown Circulator route & schedule
• Article in The Hippo