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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.
Many current routes operate under former streetcar routes. The streetcars provided the main transportation in the Northern Virginia area from the 1800s to the 1940s. [3] The Alexandria, Barcroft and Washington Transit Company (AB&W) and the Washington Virginia & Maryland Coach Company (WV&M) operated some of the routes prior to 1973.
View east along US 250 Bus. and north along SR 20 in Charlottesville. US Route 250 Business (US 250 Business) is a business route of US 250 in Albemarle County and the city of Charlottesville. The highway runs 4.55 miles (7.32 km) from US 250 and US 29 west of Charlottesville to US 250 and SR 20 in the eastern part of Charlottesville.
The railway was reorganized as the Charlottesville and Albemarle Bus Company in 1936 with a transition to bus service. Today, Charlottesville Area Transit provides bus service to the city of Charlottesville; however, the city has recently investigated the feasibility of a streetcar line following much of the same route as the Charlottesville ...
The list excludes charter buses, private bus operators, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. Figures for daily ridership, number of vehicles, and daily vehicle revenue miles are accurate as of 2009 and come from the FTA National Transit Database.
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation is proposing adding the first east-west line to the service in 2025. The new route is planned to run from Virginia Beach to Harrisonburg. The 235-mile trip will take about six-and-a-half hours one way, with stops in places like Charlottesville, Richmond, and Williamsburg, among others ...
1–89 – local routes in various areas of the city; 40X–88X – express routes (specifically designated with an X) from uptown to various park and ride lots; 90–99 – Circulator routes in North Mecklenburg (and formerly Matthews/Mint Hill) that will deviate for pick ups up to 3/4 of a mile from the route with advanced notice.
SR 20 is a C-shaped route that connects Charlottesville with Farmville (via US 15) in Southside Virginia. The state highway also links Charlottesville to Fredericksburg (via SR 3) by way of Orange County , within which SR 20 is the main east–west highway and intersects US 15 again in the county seat of Orange .