North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line

The North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line, NOMBL abbreviated, was the municipal public transport company of North Olmsted, a southwestern suburb of Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio. He was from 1931 until its integration into the regional transport company Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA ) in 2005 and is considered the first municipal, ie not privately organized Verkehrsbetrieb Ohio.

The origins of bus operation go to the Cleveland, Columbus and South Western Railway ( CS & C) back, an Interurban, the wrong since the turn of the century from Cleveland to Elyria and later on to Wellington. When they went bankrupt in 1929, the city took ado operation on the section between the outer city limits and the city of Cleveland. The first bus was on 1 March 1931.

The first bus route followed the old Interurban route along Lorain Road. With the progress of settlement activity were added more lines to the fine closure of the residential areas and the connectivity of the neighboring towns in the following decades. After completion of Interstates also express coach services were set up on the highway. In 2000, as 40 buses on seven lines in use and carried more than one million passengers a year.

1975 organized by the competent district, Cuyahoga County, his new transport. He founded to the RTA as a circular own transport company and raised their own taxes to balance the annual deficit. To get access to these new financial and technical resources, the NOMBL hired from that point on as a local sub-contractors of the RTA. However, it remained as an independent, urban bus operation, so that the city will continue possessed the planning authority in the catchment area of ​​their bus routes.

When the RTA contracts in 2005 did not want to prolong the NOMBL was eventually taken over completely by the RTA on 20 March 2005.

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• Template: Internet resource / Maintenance / date is not in the ISO FormatDecsman, David B.: Cleveland Suburban Buses - North Olmstead Municipal Bus Lines (sic). The Ohio Museum of Transportation, 1970, 2004, accessed on 28 October 2010 (originally published in: Motor Bus Society ( ed. ): Motor Coach Age February 1971).