Photo courtesy of Motor Bus Society: Metrobus from 1960 to the present.

In 1960, the then-Dade County Commission passed an ordinance
to create the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).  

Over the years and under various administrations, MTA evolved into the
Metro-Dade Transportation Administration, the Metro-Dade Transit
Agency, the Miami-Dade* Transit Agency, and is now known simply as
Miami-Dade Transit (MDT).  

Today's MDT has a viable four-mode system—Metrobus, Metrorail, Metromover,
and Paratransit—used by nearly 300,000 passengers daily.

*A 1997 election changed the name of the county from
Dade to Miami-Dade.