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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.
The Virginia Breeze is an intercity bus service operated by Megabus, introduced by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation. It is designed to connect underserved rural areas. The system operates four bus routes from Washington D.C. to many different parts of Virginia.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Virginia Trailways, officially Virginia Stage Lines, had lines west on State Route 55 to Front Royal, west on U.S. Route 211 to Luray, southwest to Charlottesville via U.S. Route 29, and south to Richmond via U.S. Route 1 and State Route 2. The first one of these operated by Virginia Stage was to Charlottesville; by 1936, it was operating all four.
Privately operated bus routes also ran in Charlotte until 1976. [7] In 1976, the City of Charlotte began operating bus routes under the Charlotte Transit brand, which operated from 1976 until CATS' founding in 2000. [8] (Charlotte Transit and the Charlotte Area Transit System are not to be confused despite the similarity in name.)