Hubs 10 Website ati.pr Founded 11 May 1959 | Daily ridership 35,000 Headquarters San Juan, Puerto Rico Routes 30 | |
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Fleet 149 buses54 paratransit 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
Sagrado Corazón Station (Santurce)
Bus terminal is located at the south entrance of the station:
Condado
Westbound buses (Old San Juan) go through Ashford Avenue, and eastbound buses through Magdalena Street.
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU)
Bus stops are located at the departures level:
Cataño Ferry Terminal
Other routes
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.
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