Charlottesville Area Transit

Charlottesville Area Transit
Slogan Catch the CAT
Founded 1975
Headquarters 615 East Water Street
Locale Charlottesville, Virginia
Service area City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia
Service type bus service
Routes 13
Fleet 36
Daily ridership 6,641. Total passengers carried in FY15 was 2,423,740
Fuel type Diesel, Hybrid
Website Charlottesville Area Transit
Historic Charlottesville Transit Service logo, used until mid-2010

Charlottesville Area Transit (formerly Charlottesville Transit Service)[1] is the provider of mass transportation in Charlottesville, Virginia. The organization was formed in 1975 when the city bought out Yellow Transit Company, which held a private monopoly on city busing. In 1999, the agency took a big leap in terms of providing better service and gaining more ridership, as it established a free shuttle route (which is officially called a trolley, using green-painted trolley-style buses) connected downtown with the University of Virginia. In 2007, the University Transit Service and Charlottesville Area Transit entered into an open ridership agreement that allows UVA students, faculty, and staff ride CAT for free by showing a valid UVA ID card.[2] Eleven routes are offered Monday through Saturday from the early morning until the late evening. Sunday service is only available on the Free Trolley and Routes 2 and 12.

Route list

  • Free Trolley - UVA/Downtown Free
  • 1 - East Market Street/Piedmont Virginia Community College/Downtown
  • 2- 5th Street Station/Downtown
  • 3 - Belmont/Southwood/Downtown
  • 4 - Cherry Ave/Fry’s Spring/UVA Hospital/Downtown
  • 5 - Barracks Road Shopping Center/Fashion Square/Wal-Mart
  • 6 - Ridge St/UVA Hospital/Downtown
  • 7 - Fashion Square Mall/Shops at Stonefield/Barracks Road Shopping Center/UVA Hospital/Downtown
  • 8 - Barracks Road Shopping Center/Seminole Square/Shops at Stonefield/Downtown
  • 9 - 10th St/Rose Hill Drive/Greenbrier Drive/Fashion Square Mall
  • 10 - Pantops/Sentra Martha Jefferson Hospital/Downtown
  • 11 - Fashion Square Mall/CATEC/Downtown
  • 12- Fashion Square/Walmart/Downtown

References

  1. ↑ "With new bus service name come route revisions". Daily Progress. 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.virginia.edu/parking/TDM/driven/openridership.html


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