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, Michigan academic square. 16 men bought plots in the nonexistent city, and upon reaching the area later that year found they had been scammed. Many in the group too disappointed to stay ended up settling around what is now metropolitan Lansing. Those who stayed quickly renamed the area "Lansing Township" in honor of their home village in New York. The settlement of fewer than 20 people would remain dormant until the winter of 1847 when the state constitution required the capital be moved from Detroit to a more central and safer location in the state's interior; many were concerned about Detroit's