Capital Area Transportation Authority Capital Area Transportation Authority The Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) is the public transit authority that operates mass transit bus service and paratransit within the metro Lansing, Michigan area, including service on the campus of Michigan State University. CATA operates both bus transit and paratransit service across a area throughout metro Lansing including Michigan State University. CATA logged 10,241,340 riders in fiscal year 2017, an overall ridership decline of 6.0% from the previous fiscal year. CATA has approximately 300 employees, of which nearly 200 are bus operators. It does not operate on these seven major holidays: In 2016, 46% of
Lansing, Kansas a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry. Following the Civil War, he earned a position at the new state penitentiary in Kansas as a hospital steward. He later resigned and opened a general mercantile store, which held the post office and an apothecary business, in the area called “Town of Progress”. “Doc Lansing”, as he became known, and his friend John C. Schmidt became co-owners of of land that was platted into town lots in 1878; they named the area “Town of Lansing”. Lansing did not become an incorporated city until 1959. The Kansas State Penitentiary, later renamed the