Metro Magazine is a trade magazine for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators, published in the United States since 1904, taking its current name in 1975.[Di Giacomo, Frank. "100 years of deadlines". Metro Magazine, July 2004, p. 4.] It is published monthly, except for July and December, by Bobit Business Media.[ Metro Magazine, February/March 2010 (Vol. 106, No. 2), p. 2.] The magazine is headquartered in Torrance, California.
History
First published in 1904 as
Electric Traction Weekly, the magazine became a monthly in 1912 and changed its name to the
Electric Traction and Bus Journal in 1932.
That name was relatively short-lived, being replaced by
Mass Transportation in 1935. Its publisher at that time was Kenfield-Davis Publishing Company.
[ Mass Transportation, February 1949 (Vol. 45, No. 2), p. 28.] In 1959, new owner Hitchcock Publishing renamed the magazine
Modern Passenger Transportation, but in 1961 this was changed to
Metropolitan Transportation and in 1965 yet again, to simply
Metropolitan.
In 1964 Bobit Publishing (now Bobit Business Media) purchased
Metropolitan and in 1975 shortened the name to
Metro (or
Metro Magazine), which the magazine itself writes as
METRO.
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