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Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority

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Hubs
  
10

Website
  
ati.pr

Founded
  
11 May 1959

Service type
  
Public transport

Daily ridership
  
35,000

Headquarters
  
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Routes
  
30

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Alliance
  
Tren Urbano and Cataño Ferry

Fleet
  
149 buses 54 paratransit

Service area
  
San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area

Fuel types
  
Diesel fuel, Hybrid electric vehicle

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).

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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.

The 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.

Service

The AMA provides bus transportation to residents and visitors of the San Juan metropolitan area - which includes the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo, Bayamón, Trujillo Alto, Cataño, Toa Baja, and Carolina - through a network of 30 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. T3 and E40 express route are the only two routes working Sundays.

All bus stops are marked with a green sign with the Spanish word PARADA.

Fares

All buses -with exception of the E20 express route- have a $0.75 fare. $0.60 is available for students, and seniors,and disabled and handicapped passengers are free.

For buses is required to pay in exact change(as in actual coins, but also you can use a magnetic strip store-value card available at Tren Urbano stations.

Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal

  • E10 express route: Old San Juan - Sagrado Corazón Station
  • T3: Old San Juan - Miramar - Santurce - Sagrado Corazón Station
  • T5: Old San Juan - Miramar - Santurce - Museum of Art of Puerto Rico - Calle Loíza - Isla Verde - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport - Iturregui Terminal
  • T9: Old San Juan - Miramar - Santurce - Sagrado Corazón Station - Barrio Obrero - Hato Rey (through Barbosa Ave.) - Río Piedras - Cupey Station
  • T21: Old San Juan - Condado - Museum of Art of Puerto Rico - Santurce - Sagrado Corazón Station
  • D53: Old San Juan - Puerto Rico Convention Center - Condado - Ocean Park - Isla Verde - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
  • Sagrado Corazón Station (Santurce)

    Bus terminal is located at the south entrance of the station:

  • E10 express route: Sagrado Corazón - Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal
  • T2: Sagrado Corazón - Hato Rey - Plaza Las Américas - Hiram Bithorn Stadium - Roberto Clemente Coliseum - San Patricio - Caparra - Bayamón Station
  • T3: Sagrado Corazón - Santurce - Miramar - Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal
  • T9: Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal - Miramar - Santurce - Sagrado Corazón Station - Barrio Obrero - Hato Rey (through Barbosa Ave.) - Río Piedras - Cupey Station
  • T21: Sagrado Corazón - Santurce - Museum of Art of Puerto Rico - Condado - Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal
  • C1: Sagrado Corazón - Hato Rey (through Ponce de León Ave. & PR-1) - Río Piedras
  • C22: Sagrado Corazón - Hato Rey - Plaza Las Américas - Hiram Bithorn Stadium - Roberto Clemente Coliseum
  • C35: Sagrado Corazón - Central Park - Puerto Rico Convention Center
  • C36: Sagrado Corazón - Residencial Luis Lloréns Torres - Punta Las Marías
  • D15: Sagrado Corazón - Hato Rey - Residencial Manuel A. Pérez - Río Piedras - Cupey Station
  • D45: Sagrado Corazón - Isla Verde - Piñones - Loíza
  • Condado

    Westbound buses (Old San Juan) go through Ashford Avenue, and eastbound buses through Magdalena Street.

  • T21: Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal - Condado - Museum of Art of Puerto Rico - Santurce - Sagrado Corazón Station
  • D53: Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal - Puerto Rico Convention Center - Condado - Ocean Park - Isla Verde - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
  • Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU)

    Bus stops are located at the departures level:

  • E40 express route: Piñero Station - The Mall of San Juan - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
  • T5: Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal - Miramar - Santurce - Museum of Art of Puerto Rico - Calle Loíza - Isla Verde - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport - Laguna Gardens - Los Angeles- Iturregui Terminal
  • D53: Old San Juan Covadonga Terminal - Puerto Rico Convention Center - Condado - Ocean Park - Isla Verde - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
  • Cataño Ferry Terminal

  • T4: Cataño - San Patricio - Martínez Nadal Station
  • D37: Cataño - Bacardí Rum Distillery - Levittown - Toa Baja
  • Other routes

  • E20 (express route): Bayamón Station - Campanilla park-and-ride terminal
  • T6: Iturregui Terminal - Plaza Carolina - Guillermo Angulo Coliseum - Carolina Terminal
  • T7: Cupey Station - 65 de Infantería Ave. - Carolina Terminal
  • T8: Piñero Station - Jesús T. Piñero Ave. - Luis Muñoz Marín Park - Martínez Nadal Station
  • T41: Piñero Station - Barbosa Ave. - De Diego St. - The Mall of San Juan - Iturregui Terminal
  • C43: Iturregui Terminal - Vista Mar
  • C44: Carolina Terminal - Julia de Burgos Park - Museo del Niño - Villa Carolina
  • C51: Carolina Terminal - Plaza Carolina - Julia de Burgos Park - Plaza Escorial
  • D13: Cupey Station - El Señorial - Interamerican University
  • D18: Cupey Station - Paraná St. - El Señorial - Winston Churchill Ave. - Riveras de Cupey
  • D26: Piñero Station - Río Piedras - Venus Gardens
  • D27: Martínez Nadal Station - Lomas Verdes Ave. - Mario Quijote Morales Coliseum - Guaynabo
  • D91: Bayamón Station - Santa Rosa - University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón - Santa Juanita
  • D92: Bayamón Station - Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium - Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum - Lomas Verdes - Magnolia
  • Active Bus Fleet

    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 for AMA (T3, E10, E20, C22, C35, C36, E40), 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
  • 3: Used only light routes
  • 6: Used on E20 (express route)
  • References

    Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority Wikipedia