''Metro Magazine'' is a

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for bus and

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and

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operators, published in the

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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. The magazine is headquartered in

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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. 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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