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 33 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. [1]

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[edit] Routes

A CARTA bus parked along Meeting Street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina
A CARTA bus parked along Meeting Street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina
  • 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-Citadel
  • 21 - Rutledge-Grove
  • 30 - Savannah Highway
  • 31 - Folly Road
  • 32 - North Bridge
  • 40 - Mount Pleasant
  • 101 - Spurill Ave.
  • 102 - North Neck
  • 103 - Leeds Ave.
  • 104 - Montague Ave.
  • 106 - Otranto-Stall
  • 201 - North Beltline
  • 202 - South Beltline
  • 203 - Medical District Shuttle
  • 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 Flexroute
  • 1 - Express 1
  • 2 - Express 2

[edit] Light Rail System

The First track planned to be built will go from Summerville, South Carolina to Downtown Charleston.[1] It will have a stop at the Charleston International Airport. Lines in the Downtown area will be constructed over the miles of the city's unused railroad tracks which served the former Union Station before it burnt down. Other tracks proposed include:

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Parker, Molly. "Putting commuter rail on fast track is Riley’s hope", Charleston Regional Business Journal date= 2008-02-08. Retrieved on 2008-03-07. 


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