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2016/02/20

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When writing the guide for the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource (OTHR), at the boundary of agency zones (usually counties), I note what other services are attached to them.  Transit in the Cleveland area is the most interconnected.  As the guide for Buckeye Trail coverage is written in the clockwise (CW) direction, then if the hiker were traveling on the Burton Section from Geauga to Portage Counties, they would come in range of the dial-a-ride services from the Portage Area Regional Transit Authority [coded T LTA (PARTA)].

In the guide it would read something like this:

CW: T LTA (PARTA) GP DAR (GP stands for "general public')

But PARTA is attached to the AkronMetro (AM) and Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authorities (gcRTA).  It's also in range to the Barons Bus that's south of Ravenna in Rootstown of Portage County. (AM) and (gcRTA) also have some connections of their own.  So it all looks like

CW:     T LTA (PARTA)
            T GLI (BAR)
            T LTA (gcRTA) FR's (fixed routes)
                  T LTA (LT)...
                  T AIR - CLE - Cleveland Hopkins Int'l
                  T MEGA - Cleveland (megabus)
                  T GLI - Cleveland (Greyhound)
                  T GLI (GO) - Cleveland (Greyhound affiliate: GoBus)
                  T GLI (BAR) - Cleveland (Greyhound affiliate: Barons Bus)
                  T AMT - CLE - Lakefront Station (Amtrak)
                  T CVSR (various locations, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad)

                        T LTA (BrTA) FR's - Laurel Square Shopping Center - Brunswick
                              T LTA (MED) GP DAR
                           

            T LTA (AM) FR's
                  T AIR - CAK - Akron - Canton Reg.
                  T GLI - Akron
                  T GLI (GO) - Akron
                  T GLI (BAR) - Akron
                  T CVSR (various locations)

                  T LTA (SARTA) FR's
                        T AIR - CAK - Akron - Canton Reg.
                        T GLI (BAR) - Canton
                        T GLI (GO) - Canton
                        T AMT - ALC - Alliance
                        T LTA (CARTS) GP DAR - from Alliance
                        T CVSR - Lincoln Station in Canton

The other major markets have some interconnectivity, but they're not as elaborate as this.  NE Ohio sections get variations of this pasted into the guide a total of 10 times.

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