Editing County Connection (section)

{{confused|Madera County Connection}}
{{Short description|Public transit agency in Contra Costa County, California}}{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox Bus transit
| name            = County Connection
| logo            = County Connection logo.svg
| logo_size       = 150px
| image           = County Connection bus at Orinda station, March 2018.JPG
| image_size      = 300px
| image_caption   = County Connection bus at [[Orinda station]] in 2018
| company_slogan  = 
| parent          = Central Contra Costa Transit Authority
| founded         = 1980
| headquarters    = 2477 Arnold Industrial Way, <br />[[Concord, California]]
| locale          = [[East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)|East Bay]]
| service_area    = [[Contra Costa County, California|Central Contra Costa County]]
| service_type    = [[bus service]]<br />ADA [[paratransit]]
| alliance        = 
| routes          = 29 local<br />7 express<br />25 select service<br />1 local shuttle
| destinations    = 
| stops           = 1,000+
| hubs            =
| stations        = 
| lounge          = 
| fleet           = 125 heavy-duty transit buses <br />48 paratransit vans
| ridership = {{American transit ridership|CA Concord total daily}} ({{American transit ridership|dailydate}}){{American transit ridership|dailycitation}}
| annual ridership = {{American transit ridership|CA Concord total annual}} ({{American transit ridership|annualdate}}){{American transit ridership|annualcitation}}
| fuel_type       = [[Ultra-low sulfur diesel|ULSD]]
| operator        = 
| ceo             = William Churchill
| website         = [http://www.cccta.org/ cccta.org]
}}
'''The County Connection''' (officially, the '''Central Contra Costa Transit Authority''', '''CCCTA''') is a [[Concord, California|Concord]]-based public transit agency operating fixed-route [[bus]] and ADA [[paratransit]] (County Connection LINK) service in and around central [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa County]] in the [[East Bay]] region of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. Contra Costa County has four major public bus transportation services, divided geographically: three mostly serve destinations within the county, covering western ([[WestCAT]]), central (County Connection), and eastern ([[Tri Delta Transit]]) regions, and one ([[AC Transit]]) serves Bayside cities along the western edges of Contra Costa and Alameda counties.

Established in 1980 as a [[Joint Powers Authority|joint powers authority]], CCCTA assumed control of public bus service within central Contra Costa first begun by [[Oakland, California|Oakland]]-based [[AC Transit]] as it expanded into suburban Contra Costa County in the mid-1970s (especially after the opening of [[BART]]). In {{American transit ridership|annualdate}}, the system had a ridership of {{American transit ridership|CA Concord total annual}}, or about {{American transit ridership|CA Concord total daily}} per weekday as of {{American transit ridership|dailydateasof}}.