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'''Eremonar Zakarís Žrat Zaram''' (in Staynish: ''Transportation Authority of the City of Žrat Zaram''), abbreviated as either '''EZŽZ''' or more popularly just '''EZ''' (a pun on the Staynish word ''easy''), is the public transit agency serving the city of [[Zaram]], [[Acronis]] and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is the busiest transit system in the country in terms of daily ridership, and it maintains the longest streetcar (trolley) and light-rail systems in the country. Formed by an Act of Parliament in 1949, EZŽZ operates buses, streetcars, light rail, and commuter rail across an area that covers nearly a third of Zaram Province.
==History==
EZŽZ was formed by the Mass Transportation Authority Act of 1949, an act of the national Parliament designed to allow the two largest cities in the country, Zaram and Crystal Coast, to establish public transit systems outside the control of the provincial Ministries of Transportation in their provinces. At the time of the act, Zaram was served by four privately-owned streetcar companies and a bus network operated by Zaram Province, all of which were nearly bankrupt. EZŽZ took ownership of the assets of all five entities upon its creation. (The Zaram Province Ministry of Transportation continues to serve the areas of the province outside the Zaram metropolitan area defined in the Mass Transportation Authority Act.) The various streetcar companies had begun operation between 1899 and 1930, and the bus system had been operating since 1935. The streetcars primarily served the urban core of the city, while the bus network was designed for commuters coming from the suburbs into the city to work.
The first task for the new agency was to eliminate redundancies now that the five formerly competing networks were now combined. One of the streetcar networks even used a different gauge track than the other, a system that was maintained until the 1970s due to fears that re-laying the track would be too costly. From 1971 to 1974, the system was converted so that every streetcar used the Acronian Standard Gauge of 2 1⁄4 nai (1,371.6mm).
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