please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message camtran founded 1976 headquarters 726 central ave. johnstown locale cambria county pa service type bus service paratransit routes 25 stations 2 fleet 43 daily ridership 1 195 812 2010 2011 fy 1 operator cambria county transit authority website camtranbus.com camtran originally called the cambria county transit authority operates mass transit bus service within johnstown pennsylvania cambria county and windber pennsylvania somerset county pennsylvania . camtran also operates the johnstown inclined plane which they took over in 1983 from westmont pennsylvania borough . the transit system began operation in 1976 from the remnants of the johnstown traction company . while the cambria county transit authority ccta began operation on july 20 1976 service did not actually being until december 1 1976 . in june 1999 ccta becomes camtran . contents 1 bus services 1.1 camtran urban service 1.2 camtran rural service 2 fleet 3 service routes 3.1 urban routes 3.2 rural routes 4 passes gfi machines 5 references 6 external links bus services edit camtran is the urban division while camtran is the rural division . camtran urban service edit camtran operates 16 routes of its urban division . most routes begin and end at the transit center on east main street in downtown johnstown . the transit center was constructed in 1983 2 and features a snack shop where passes can be purchased as well as public restrooms and a parking garage and connection to greyhound bus service . sunday bus service began in 2000 and bicycle racks were added to the urban division buses in 2006 . in 2008 the transit center was renovated including improvements to the air handling system as well as electronic messaging boards . in 2011 seven new gillig buses 3 were added to camtran s fleet . camtran rural service edit camtran started in 1978 and was originally called cambria county rural transportation cart serves the northern half of cambria county . in 2000 cart introduced 4 reserve a ride a service in which passengers call in and literally reserve the bus for wherever they need to go . reserve a ride will actually pick you up at your door unlike conventional fixed route services . this service is subsidized 85 % by the pennsylvania lottery for persons 65 years or older . in 2002 cart became camtran . a new transit center was built in 2003 in ebensburg to better serve camtran and also in 2003 the ebensburg altoona commuter route was added and the other camtran routes were revised . camtran began participating in the penndot persons with disabilities project in 2008 where on demand service is provided to riders with disabilities . the rider pays 15 % of the reserve a ride fare . camtran operates their rural blue and yellow smaller buses out their office in ebensburg pa and are located in the same building with the cambria county area agency on aging . most transfers on camtran routes are completed at the camtran transit center . fleet edit camtran operates a fleet of 51 buses on a rural and an urban fixed route system . 17 ford 13 gillig 8 champion bus incorporated 5 flxible 4 chance rt 52 4 freightliner llc service routes edit urban routes edit 6 conemaugh franklin discontinued july 2011 merged into 30 ebensburg johnstown 7 coopersdale 8 daisytown discontinued july 2011 9 richland town centre 10 dale solomon oakland 11 galleria scalp ave 12 hystone westwood 13 arbutus belmont 14 moxham horner street 15 oakhurst 16 prospect 17 scalp avenue galleria 18 downtown shuttle 19 southmont westwood laurelwood 20 westmont brownstown 21 windber rural routes edit 30 ebensburg to johnstown 31 patton to ebensburg 32 northern cambria loop 33 ebensburg cresson portage 34 mainline shopper 35 patton ebensburg saturday shopper 36a ebensburg to altoona 36b sunday logan valley mall 37 sunday galleria mall passes gfi machines edit camtran operates bus fare machines manufactured by gfi . according to camtran in a summer 2006 newsletter called camrecorder these gfi machines were introduced to camtran in march 1992 . they take bus tokens dollar bills change and bus passes . these machines can not give cash change back they only give back change cards in which customers receive a card that can only be used on camtran and camtran buses . customers never get actual cash back from a camtran bus . 5 camtran does not use the gfi machines . customers have to actually show their pass es to the driver and enter the exact change into the fare box because even on a change card it s not possible to get change . camtran passes can be used on camtran buses but customers must pay the difference since the rural fares are more than the urban fares . camtran passes can be used on camtran urban buses since the rural passes actually pay more fare than the urban passes . references edit 2010 11 annual report pdf . cambria county transit authority . retrieved 11 may 2012 . history . camtran . retrieved 11 may 2012 . annual report 2011 12 pdf . cambria county transit authority . retrieved 11 may 2012 . history . camtrab . retrieved 11 may 2012 . camtran s camrecorder newsletter summer 06 anniversary edition pdf . camtran . 2006 . retrieved 2008 01 29 . dead link external links edit camtran transit official site v t e city of johnstown metro area johnstown westmont brownstown richland township east conemaugh ferndale franklin daisytown history attractions johnstown flood johnstown flood national memorial south fork dam allegheny portage railroad cambria iron company inclined plane grandview cemetery staple bend tunnel stone bridge conemaugh river transportation airport amtrak camtran education university of pittsburgh at johnstown pennsylvania highlands community college greater johnstown high school bishop mccort high school richland senior high school westmont hilltop high school industry 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