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Providing over 25 million customer trips each year, CATS has added light rail and streetcar service, which has increased ridership exponentially.
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Nowadays, there’s an app for everything. Very few of those apps can turn an everyday transit rider into a hero who summons help for a person in distress. A routine ride on your transit system can be suddenly disrupted if you witness an assault, a crime in progress or a medical emergency. That is why apps designed for public safety must take all imaginable scenarios into consideration.
Read More →Bob Mirabito, the occasionally controversial head of CATS announced his resignation Tuesday. His last day on the job will be May 6.
Read More →ELERTS See-Something Say Something mobile app enables riders to submit reports containing photos, video, and a description the issue, as well as a GPS map, pinpointing the problem area.
Read More →According to the legislation, Amtrak will have to dedicate at least one car per train “in which a ticketed passenger may transport a domesticated cat or dog in the same manner as a carry-on baggage."
Read More →The Lynx board, which estimated finding a replacement could take 90 days, said it has no interest in bringing in a private manager to run the system -- a suggestion by local lawmakers.
Read More →The CityLYNX Gold Line is the first 1.5-mile segment of a 10-mile streetcar system. It travels from the Charlotte Transportation Center to Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center with six stops.
Read More →Prior to joining LYNX, John Lewis served as the CEO of the Greater Richmond Transit Company.
Read More →Tober is former CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) and a nationally recognized expert in transit agency management and operations, and current senior advisor at Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Read More →To carry a passenger a mile on the streetcar, the CATS projects it will cost $1.58 in 2019, when the second phase of the project would open. For comparison, in 2012, it cost the agency 77 cents to move a bus passenger one mile. A Lynx Blue Line passenger’s 1-mile trip was 68 cents.
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