Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is a multimodal transportation agency responsible for public transit, as well as freeway, street and rail development. OCTA was formed in 1991 by the consolidation of seven separate transportation agencies, and is the primary transit provider in an urban county of more than 2.9 million people. OCTA provides a wide variety of services to the public with a current annual budget of $750 million.

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is the public sector transportation planning body and transit service provider for Orange County, California. Its ancestor agencies include not only the prior Orange County Transit District but also such diverse entities as the Pacific Electric Railroad and the South Coast Transit Corporation. In 2005, OCTA was judged America's Best Public Transportation System by the American Public Transportation Association, for its record ridership gains in the bus and the Metrolink trains that its operates or funds. OCTA also operates the 91 Express Lanes.

The Authority's administrative offices are located in Orange and it maintains bus operations bases in Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana. A paratransit base operated by Veolia for the authority's ACCESS service is located in Irvine.

NTD Code: 9036