Fresno
Horse Car
1889-1901 - Fresno Railroad Co.
Electric Streetcar
1902-1903 - Fresno City Railway
1903-1939 - Fresno Traction Co.
1922 - buses introduced
1939 - streetcars replaced with buses operated by new National City Lines subsidiary
1939-1946 - Fresno City Lines (National City Lines)
1946-1961 - Fresno City Lines Inc.
1961-1969 - Fresno Municipal Lines
1969-1989 - Fresno Transit
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1989)
Fresno Area Express
NEW COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT SYSTEM
Fresno County Rural Transit Agency (since 1979)
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Bakersfield
1900-1933 - Bakersfield & Kern Electric Railway Co.
1933-1956 - Bakersfield Transit Co.
1942 - streetcars replaced with buses
1956-1973 - Bakersfield Transit Authority
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1973)
Golden Empire Transit District
NEW COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT SYSTEM
Kern Regional Transit (since 1981)
Corcoran
Private bus co. in 1952 - Thorson State Lines
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Corcoran Area Transit
NEW COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT SYSTEM
Kings Area Rural Transit (since 1980)
NEWER COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT SYSTEM
Madera Area Express
Merced
1950's - Rice & Murry Transportation System
Prior to 1996 - 4 local bus systems
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1996)
Merced County/The Bus
Stockton
Horse Car
1874-1887 - Street Railroad Co.
1887-1890 - Stockton Electric Motor Railway Co.
1891-1903 - Stockton Electric Railway Co.
1892 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1903-1939 - Stockton Electric Railroad Co.
1915 - buses introduced
1939-1963 - Stockton City Lines (National City Lines)
1941 - streetcars discontinued
1963-1965 - Stockton City Lines Inc.
1965-1994 - Stockton Metropolitan Transit District
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1994)
San Joaquin Regional Transit District
Lodi
1950's - Lodi Transit
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Lodi Grapeline
NEWER TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Manteca Transit
Tracy Tracer (since 2001)
HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Stockton-Lodi/Sacramento
1907-1933 - Central California Traction Co.
HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Stockton-Modesto
1913-1932 - Tidewater Southern Railway Co.
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Modesto
1912-1917 - Modesto & Empire Traction Co.
1917 - streetcars discontinued
1927-1932 - City Transit
1932-1973 - Modesto Motor Bus Service
1973-1990 - Intracity Transit
1990-2021 - Modesto Area Express
Outlying Stanislaus County
1950's - Modesto Transit Co.
Prior to 2021 - Stanislaus Regional Transit
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Visalia
After 1908 - Visalia Electric Railroad Co.
1924 - streetcars discontinued
After 1916 - Orange Belt Stages
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1981)
Visalia Transit
NEW COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT SYSTEM
Tulare County Area Transit
HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Visalia-Exeter-Lemon Cove-Terminus/Redbanks/Elderwood
1908-1924 - Visalia Electric Railroad Co.