San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System is a public transit service provider for central, southern, northeast, and southeast San Diego County, California, as well as for the city of San Diego. The agency directly operates a large transit system that includes the MTS Bus, San Diego Trolley light rail, and Rapid bus rapid transit services. The MTS also controls the San Diego and Arizona Eastern (SD&AE) freight railway and regulates taxicabs, jitneys, and other private for-hire passenger transportation services.
A Rapid bus departs Santa Fe Depot station (left) while a Blue Line train of the San Diego Trolley loads passengers at America Plaza station. The stations are a major MTS hub in Downtown San Diego.
An original 1886 horse-drawn trolley in a parade celebrating the groundbreaking of the Panama–California Exposition Center in 1911.
A San Diego Class 1 streetcar at 5th and Broadway, C. 1915.
San Diego Trolley near the international border in San Ysidro, C. 1990
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) operates 97 bus routes in the city of San Diego and the rest of the southern half of San Diego County, California, as of April 2020.
CNG Powered MTS bus in Downtown San Diego
An Electric MTS Bus
Image: Metropolitan Transit System MTS San Diego, California
Image: San Diego MTS electric bus