CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
1833-1902 - several companies
1902-1905 - New Orleans Railway Co.
1905-1911 - New Orleans Railway & Light Co.
1911-1922 - New Orleans Railway & Light Co. (American Cities Co.)
1922-1925 - New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (Electric Bond & Shares Co.)
1925-1949 - New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (Electric Power & Light Corp.)
1949-1983 - New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (Middle South Utilities, Inc.)
1929-1967 - operated trolleybuses
Still has streetcars
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Regional Transit Authority
Serves Orleans Parish
Additional metropolitan parishes:
Jefferson Parish (Gretna) - Jefferson Transit
St. Bernard Parish - St. Bernard Council on Aging
New additional metropolitan parishes:
St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany (Mandeville) Parishes - rural systems
Plaquemines Parish - no transit service
OUTLYING TRANSIT HISTORY (GRETNA)
Prior to 1907 - Algiers Gouldsboro & Gretna Railway
1907-1917 - Algiers Railway & Lighting Co.
1917-1925 - South New Orleans Light & Traction Co.
1925-1927 - South New Orleans Light & Traction Co. (Electric Power & Light Corp.)
1927-1949 - Louisiana Power & Light Co. (Electric Power & Light Corp.)
1929 - streetcars discontinued
After 1949 - Westside Transit Lines (American Transit Corp.)
OUTLYING TRANSIT HISTORY (MANDEVILLE)
1915-1918 - St. Tammany & New Orleans Railway & Ferry Co.
1918 - streetcars discontinued
Period of no transit service