Metro Regional Transit Authority is celebrating the opening of its new maintenance and operations facility, a major upgrade for the transit system that serves Summit County.
The new building replaces a facility that opened more than 40 years ago. At the time, it was built to serve 90 buses. Today, Metro’s fleet has grown to more than 230, and the agency says it had simply outgrown the old space.
The project cost $61 million. More than $37 million of that came from a federal grant…