{"id":12,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-03-04 21:31:57","latitude":41.50043798040000098126256489194929599761962890625,"longitude":-81.700054407099997888508369214832782745361328125,"title":"Regional Transit Authority","subtitle":null,"fullsize":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/lg_busses-streetcars-euclid-1948_52986edeca.jpg","address":"1240 W 6th St, Cleveland, OH","zoom":17,"creator":["CSU Center for Public History and Digital Humanities"],"description":"Cleveland, like many American cities, experienced its heyday of streetcar transit lines in the early decades of the twentieth century. Many Clevelanders still fondly recall their trips downtown aboard the creaking, groaning streetcars that plied the city&#039;s major thoroughfares. While streetcars formed the backbone of public transit in the first half of the century, in the second half, buses and rapid trains became common. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority formed in 1975 through the merger of the Cleveland Transit System and the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit and also assumed control over several suburban bus systems. RTA spearheaded the federally funded Euclid Corridor Transportation Project, the culmination of decades of attempts to introduce a high-speed transit line on Euclid Avenue.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":null,"website":"<a href=\"http://www.riderta.com\">www.riderta.com</a>","related_resources":["\"<a href=\"https://case.edu/ech/articles/g/greater-cleveland-regional-transit-authority\">Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.</a>\" <em>Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.</em>","Toman, James A., and Blaine S. Hays. <em>Horse Trails to Regional Rails: The Story of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland</em>. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1996."],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/lg_busses-streetcars-euclid-1948_52986edeca.jpg":{"id":104,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Buses and Streetcars, 1948","description":"Buses and streetcars on Euclid Avenue in 1948.  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