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Franklin Regional Transit Authority

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service between Greenfield Community College, Big Y Plaza, downtown Greenfield, the JWO Transit Center, Franklin Medical Center, Stop and Shop Plaza, and downtown Turners Falls. This route is timed to make free transfers with other FRTA bus routes at the JWO Transit Center. Passengers may transfer for free between Route 24 and FRTA Routes 23 and 32 at Avenue A and Third Street.
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This is a local route entirely within the Town of Greenfield. This route departs the JWO Transit Center hourly between 8:00 am and 6:50 pm. This route is the primary in-town transportation option throughout the town of Greenfield, with service to major apartment complexes, shopping plazas, and allows
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This route travels between Avenue A and 11th Street in downtown Turners Falls, and Greenfield Community College, in Greenfield, via the JWO Transit Center. This route runs hourly between 9:15 am and 7:05 pm. Route 24, created with service improvements in September 2017, provides frequent and direct
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This is a mornings-only local route entirely within the Town of Greenfield, with eight trips between 6:15 am and 9:30 am, and a ninth one-way trip originating at the Greenfield Gardens apartment complex at 4:35 am and arriving at the JWO Transit Center at 4:55 am. This route runs as a connector
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in 1924. The FRTA was established in 1978 with then implementation of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 161B, which gave rise to several regional transit authorities throughout Massachusetts. FRTA is the largest public transit authority in Massachusetts by territory.
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FRTA public transportation service is available Monday through Friday. Fares on fixed route buses are free through June 30, 2024. FRTA is classified as a 'rural' transit authority. As of May 2023, there are seven active routes:
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The John W. Olver Transit Center houses the FRTA offices and the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, the successor organization to the Franklin County county government. It has provisions for local FRTA buses and
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Prior to the FRTA, Greenfield and its surrounding areas were served by the intermunicipal Greenfield and Montague Transportation Area (GMTA), an authority created with the purchase of assets of the defunct
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service from the JWO Transit Center to Greenfield Community College, the Greenfield Corporate Center, as well as around town to allow passengers to connect with outbound buses at the JWO Transit Center.
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with six round trips daily between the JWO Transit Center in Greenfield and Sugarloaf Estates in Sunderland. At Sugarloaf Estates, passengers may transfer for free between FRTA and
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In 2013, Athol voted to withdraw from the FRTA service district, and instead voted to join MART, necessitating that the former Greenfield/Athol route be truncated in Orange.
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Environmental Impact Station and Section 4(f) Evaluation; Route 2- Greenfield, Gill, Erving, Wendell, Orange, Massachusetts
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In 2006, the FRTA assumed the responsibility of providing transportation services for the towns of Greenfield and
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is a regional transit authority which provides public transportation principally to
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in downtown Northampton, where passengers may transfer between FRTA and the
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Although not in the FRTA service area, public bus service operated by the
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region, both in Massachusetts. The FRTA is based in the county seat of
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This route serves Greenfield, Turners Falls, Millers Falls,
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for connections to other routes at the JWO Transit Center.
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John W. Olver Transit Center, 12 Olive Street, Suite 1,
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Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority
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University of Massachusetts Transportation Services
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Index


Greenfield
Massachusetts
Franklin County
Hampshire County
Worcester County
fixed-route bus service
demand response service
paratransit service
John W. Olver Transit Center
buses
vans
www.frta.org
Franklin County
North Quabbin
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Connecticut Valley Street Railway
Fitchburg
Montachusett Regional Transit Authority
Athol
Orange, Massachusetts
Gardner
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority
Northampton
Montague
Turners Falls
Millers Falls
Sunderland
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority
Amherst

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