Welcome to Charlottesville Area Transit!

CAT provides bus service to the greater Charlottesville area.  Riders enjoy safe, clean and  comfortable service Monday  through Sunday.

Bus Lines Community Poetry Reading

Winning poems and flash fiction works from the "New Beginnings" contest will be on display on CAT's buses.  For a complete list of poems and their locations, click here.

Transit Study
Thanks to everyone who came out to hear Nelson\Nygaard's Final Recommendations on March 18th, 2013.  A copy of the slide presentation has been posted online . 

Teen Ride Program
In an effort to promote public transportation as a viable and sustainable source of transportation among area teens, Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) has instated a new pilot program, expanding its Teen Ride Program to all high school aged students through June 30th, 2013. Based upon the success of the Charlottesville High School (CHS) ride program, students in grades nine through twelve will have the ability to ride any CAT bus free of charge. This will include home schooled students, county school students, and private school students. To ride fare free, students will simply show their student ID or CAT issued phot ID.
For more information, click here .

Real-Time Information and 3rd Party Apps:  It has come to our attention that smartphone users may not have reliable access to CAT’s real time information through their third party transit apps. While we love the added convenience of these apps, we have little to no control over their development. For reliable information, we recommend that users utilize our website or call our real-time information line at 434-244-5180. Again, we apologize about the inconvenience and recommend that you contact your app developer with any further issues.