Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority
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Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority or CARTA is a bus system in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It serves Charleston and some of its suburbs with 31 routes and a fleet of 54 buses. The system operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. CARTA has hopes of expanding the transportation in Charleston with adding more routes and hopefully getting Charleston a light rail system. To attract riders CARTA has designated one Friday of each month where all riders will ride for free all day to see how the Mass Transit company is growing in size.
[edit] Routes
- 1N - North Area Late Night
- 2N - Peninsula Late Night
- 3N - West Ashley Late Night
- 4N - East Cooper Late Night
- 10 - Rivers Ave.
- 11 - Dorchester Road and International Airport
- 12 - Upper Dorchester Road and Air Force Base
- 13 - Remount Road
- 20 - King Street and The Citadel
- 21 - Rutledge Ave. and Grove
- 30 - Savannah Highway
- 31 - Folly Road
- 32 - North Bridge
- 40 - Mount Pleasant
- 101 - Spurill Ave.
- 102 - North Neck
- 103 - Leeds Ave.
- 104 - Montague
- 106 - Otranto & Stall
- 201 - North Beltline
- 202 - South Beltline
- 210 - Aquarium and College of Charleston DASH
- 211 - Meeting Street & King Street DASH
- 212 - Market & Waterfront DASH
- 301 - St Andrews
- 302 - Orange Grove
- 303 - Ashley River Road
- 310 - James Island Flex Route
- 401 - Sullivans Island Flex Route
- 402 - Isle of Palms (Now Combined with Route 401 but still is Route 402 for regional distinction)
- 410 - Long Point Flex Route
[edit] Light Rail System
The First track planned to be built will go from Summerville, South Carolina to Downtown Charleston. It will have a stop at the Charleston International Airport. Lines in the Downtown area will be constructed over the miles of the cities unused railroad tracks which served the former Union Station before it was burnt down. Other tracks proposed include:
- One spanning from Charleston to Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
- One spanning from Charleston to the eastern side of North Charleston, South Carolina.
- One spanning from Charleston to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina which will go directly down the middle of the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge.
[edit] External links
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City of Charleston |
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Charleston Battery-USL | Charleston RiverDogs-SAL | Carolina Sandsharks-AIFA | South Carolina Stingrays-ECHL |
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| Newspapers |
The Post and Courier | The Charleston City Paper | The Charleston Regional Business Journal |
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| Television Stations |
2WCBD-TV-NBC | 4WCIV-TV-ABC | 5WCSC-TV-CBS | 7WITV-TV-PBS | 36WMMP-TV-MyNetworkTV |
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| Mass Transit Provider |
Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority |
