Worcester Regional Transit Authority

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority on Roblox is a transit authority based in Massachusetts, alike MBTA. However, it is stationed farther west in the city in Worcester and areas surrounding. They are currently sitting at 1,371 Roblox members and 300 Discord members as of January 2022. They are currently the 2nd largest transit group in the northeast. The group opened for revenue service on June 28th, 2020. The group was founded May 31st of 2019 by Ill91, and ownership transferred to EdDude107 on October 12th, 2021.

Staff
The WRTA is staffed by a few individuals under EdDude107 (Administrator): Cra_zyRoblox, Assistant Transportation Officer; Anandunnithan, Chief Instructor and StarMarin56, Lead Developer.

Keynote/Current Information
The last keynote took place on July 22nd, 2019. There, the old depot can be seen with a drive on an old bus down Quinsigamond Avenue (completed up to Lafayette St). Further leaks have shown an entirely remodeled depot, roads extending to downtown, custom homes, etc.

The next public event was their QnA on April 2nd, 2020.

Services began with the Downtown/South Main Division opening on June 28, 2020 although it was intended to begin on June 21 of that year. Routes available were 19, 25 and 27 and released with only 40' Gilligs in service. The game was not updated for a long time although many runs took place.

In October 2020, the group released another update to update its depot, then added an extension to the airport on October 31, 2020. This made route 19 longer but few pictures were released to the public of buses serving the extension as it was not completed in time.

In December 2020, after what was believed to be a few months' hiatus, WRTA updated its bus garage to better store its buses. In addition, Worcester Airport was added to the map was planned to be added. However, the group was no longer active so again, and the Twitter account did not post buses actually serving the airport in Roblox, or many leaks of progress further than previously released sections of the map.

During the beginning of 2021, WRTA continued a prolonged hiatus, influenced by the founder of WRTA, Ill91, assisting CallMeMedy and his MBTA group. Ill91 previously helped Medy a few months prior but the two split in the early stages of the group.

On June 9th, 2021, WRTA finally returned for what is dubbed ‘the last time’. Several updates were posted, including making the game a free drive for all visitors, the first group since NTA to do so, and the first bus group since several older MTA groups to do it whilst still being active. MTC also went public as a free drive a day earlier.

On re-opening day 2021, WRTA saw, at one point, up to 20 concurrent players, even beating out zack984’s MBTA: Somerville Division in the middle of the day.

Developer updates then returned, and Ill91 became owner again. Unfortunately, for guests and newcomers, WRTA reverted back to a trainings-only group just one day after converting from a free-drive. A Summer Update was announced, but like previous updates, it was not completed in time.

In late August, Ill91 announced the WRTA Roblox group for sale after releasing a document earlier that month that stated he was leaving the Ro-Transit community. The same day in August that Ill91 announced the group for sale, he also announced a new group (RIPTA Roblox) and a new game, despite his claims of retirement. After a month of negotiations, the group was sold to EdDude107, with promises of a "new era at WRTA". Since then, development status went up and down, with small things being done at an attempt to keep users engaged in the community. An old partnership with Translogic Systems (now AutoLogic Inc) was revived, and new versions of the current fleet were planned to be released, with sneak peeks released in the Discord server and the Twitter page. In addition, the game was also converted back into a free-drive for the second time in its history. Several unofficial "dev leaks" occurred on the unfinished route 7 left over from Ill91, but it was never actively worked on.

On December 28th, 2021, after months of internal conflict, Ill91 (including all but two WRTA staff) and EdDude107 split ways after an argument over the group's future. Ill91 has taken WRTA's Main South game and published it under his RIPTA Roblox group, and EdDude107 has ownership of the WRTA Roblox group with no published games under the group's name.

Routes

 * None confirmed

Fleet
WRTA's fleet consists solely of Gillig Low Floors produced by Autologic Systems in both diesel (84xx) and hybrid (94xx) variants. Although the system has 30' Gillig Low Floors and a Proterra electric bus in real life in addition to their 40' models, these are not depicted in Roblox.

Did you know?

 * WRTA's founder, Ill91, started the first 4 months of the group with a mere 800 Robux. Yikes!


 * The previous fleet of WRTA buses included free-modeled and very slim, vehicles, custom-fitted to WRTA. They have since been beginning to deplete in numerous supply due to the Translogic partnership.


 * WRTA is actually the 3rd agency to open in the state of Massachusetts and in the northeast.
 * Throughout 2020, WRTA claimed it was the most realistic transit agency in Roblox although they still use the same claim to this day.

Links
Twitter

Roblox

Discord