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
Robert Lansing , Lansing backed Woodrow Wilson in issuing three notes of protest to the German government. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State following Wilson's second note, which Bryan considered too belligerent. Lansing replaced Bryan, and said in his memoirs that following the "Lusitania" tragedy he always had the "conviction that we would ultimately become the ally of Britain". In 1916 Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence. These agents were initially used to observe the activities of the Central Powers in America, and later to