Metro is the
passenger transport executive for the county of
West Yorkshire, England. It was formed on 1 April 1974 as the
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (
WYPTE) at the same time as the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. The
Metro brand has been used from the outset, and since the formal abolition of the WYPTE on 1 April 2014, it has been the public facing name of the organisation. The transport authority of West Yorkshire, responsible for setting transport policy, is the
West Yorkshire Combined Authority.