Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

====Public transit====
{{main|Public transit in Columbus, Ohio}}
[[File:Columbus, OH - COTA Spring St.jpg|thumb|[[Central Ohio Transit Authority|COTA]]'s Spring Street Terminal, one of its five transit centers]]
[[File:Columbus Union Station arcade, June 1970.jpg|thumb|Arcade of the third [[Union Station (Columbus, Ohio)|Union Station]], the city's rail station from 1897 to 1977]]
Columbus maintains a widespread municipal bus service called the [[Central Ohio Transit Authority]] (COTA). The service operates [[List of COTA bus routes|41 routes]] with a fleet of 440 buses, serving approximately 19 million passengers per year. COTA operates 23 regular fixed-service routes, 14 express services, a [[bus rapid transit]] route, a free downtown circulator, night service, an airport connector and other services.<ref name="2019ar">{{cite web|title=2019 Annual Report|work=Central Ohio Transit Authority|url=https://www.cota.com/who-we-are/2019-annual-report/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323174235/https://www.cota.com/who-we-are/2019-annual-report/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 23, 2020|date=2019|access-date=March 23, 2020}}</ref> [[LinkUS]], an initiative between COTA, the city, and the [[Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission]], is planning to add more rapid transit to Columbus, with three proposed corridors operating by 2030, and potentially a total of five by 2050.

Intercity bus service is provided at the [[Columbus Bus Station]] by [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]], [[Barons Bus Lines]], Miller Transportation, [[GoBus (Ohio)|GoBus]] and other carriers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kfhgroup.com/aibra/Tables/tables.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426091154/http://www.kfhgroup.com/aibra/Tables/tables.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Columbus does not have passenger rail service. The city's major train station, [[Union Station (Columbus)|Union Station]], was a stop along [[Amtrak]]'s [[National Limited]] train service until 1977 and was razed in 1979,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.columbus.rr.com/unionstation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028014238/http://home.columbus.rr.com/unionstation|archive-date=October 28, 2006|title=Columbus Union Station|date=October 13, 2006}}</ref> and the [[Greater Columbus Convention Center]] now stands in its place. Until Amtrak's founding in 1971, the [[Penn Central]] ran the ''[[Cincinnati Limited]]'' to Cincinnati to the southwest (in prior years the train continued to New York City to the east); the ''[[Ohio State Limited]]'' between [[Cincinnati]] and [[Cleveland]], with Union Station serving as a major intermediate stop (the train going unnamed between 1967 and 1971); and the ''[[Spirit of St. Louis (train)|Spirit of St. Louis]],'' which ran between St. Louis and New York City until 1971. The station was also a stop along the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], the [[New York Central Railroad]], the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]], the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]], the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]], the [[Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad]], and the [[Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad]]. As the city lacks local, commuter or intercity trains, Columbus is now the largest city and metropolitan area in the U.S. without any passenger rail service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trainweb.org/moksrail/documents/pop/msa.htm|title=Metropolitan Areas Served by Amtrak|date=November 23, 2006|access-date=May 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624205811/http://www.trainweb.org/moksrail/documents/pop/msa.htm|archive-date=June 24, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081227/ts_nm/us_transportation_phoenix |title=Phoenix debuts light-rail system |date=December 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231085009/http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081227/ts_nm/us_transportation_phoenix |archive-date=December 31, 2008 }}</ref> Numerous proposals to return rail service have been introduced; currently Amtrak plans to restore service to Columbus by 2035.