of seeing passenger service restored. Pensacola and Tallahassee are the two largest metropolitan areas in Florida without any passenger rail service. Major highways Interstate 10 Interstate 110 U.S. Route 29 U.S. Route 90 & U.S. Route 90 Alternate U.S. Route 98 & U.S. Route 98 Business State Road 289 Ninth Avenue State Road 291 Davis Highway State Road 292 Pace Boulevard State Road 295 New Warrington Road, Farfield Drive State Road 296 Michigan Avenue, Beverly Parkway, Brent Lane, Bayou Boulevard, Perry Street State Road 742 Creighton Road, Burgess Road State Road 750 Airport Boulevard Mass transit The local bus service is the Escambia County Area Transit. In December 2007, ECAT announced that it would cut many of its routes citing poor rider frequency. However, in January 2008, ECAT announced that it would expand service to neighboring Gulf Breeze and change existing routes to more convenient locations. Pensacola also has a ferry service owned by the National Park Service. It has stops in Downtown Pensacola, Pensacola Beach and Fort Pickens. Bus The city is served by Greyhound Bus and Greyhound Lines. Hospitals Hospitals in Pensacola include Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital, Baptist Hospital, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital, HCA Florida West Hospital, Select Specialty Hospital, and West Florida Hospital. Notable people Bands from Pensacola Finite Automata, an industrial band This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, a folk-punk band Twothirtyeight, indie rock band Body Head Bangerz, hip hop group McAlyster, Country music group Sister cities Pensacola's sister cities are: Chimbote, Peru Escazú, Costa Rica Gero, Japan Isla Mujeres, Mexico Horlivka, Ukraine Miraflores, Peru Kaohsiung, Taiwan Macharaviaya, Spain See also Blue Angels Brownsville Revival Escambia Bay Bridge Escambia High School riots Gulf Breeze, Florida Marion C. Bascom Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings (July 9, 2009) Navarre, Florida References World War II Heritage Cities External links Official website Pensapedia, the Pensacola encyclopedia Pensacola Bay Area Convention & Visitors Bureau www.hurricanecity.com/city/pensacola Hurricane history for Pensacola 1698 establishments in the Spanish Empire County seats in Florida Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida Cities in Escambia County, Florida Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States Port cities and towns of the Florida Gulf coast Populated places established in 1559 Cities in Florida Cities in Pensacola metropolitan area British Florida List of place names of Choctaw origin in the United States