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The Chatham Area Transit Board of Directors will be holding their regular meeting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 22. The meeting will be held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting agenda can be found online at http://chathamtransitga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Default.aspx. The virtual meeting can be viewed live on CAT’s YouTube page at: .

Chatham Area Transit is shutting down Savannah Belles Ferry service early tonight due to a staffing shortage. As a result, ferry service will be stopping at 6:30 p.m. Ferry service is expected to resume its regular schedule on Saturday.

Chatham Area Transit will continue requiring passengers on CAT vehicles to wear masks through mid-April to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, as required by the Transportation Security Administration. On March 10, the TSA announced that the federal face mask requirement for all transportation networks, including public transportation, will be extended through April 18. The

Chatham Area Transit is shutting down Savannah Belles Ferry service early tonight due to an employee emergency. Due to the staffing shortage, the last trip will be departing from City Hall Landing to the Savannah Convention Center at 6:30. Ferry service is expected to resume its regular schedule on Friday.

Chatham Area Transit services will be impacted by the St. Patrick’s Day parade and festival on March 17. All of the operating routes that normally stop at the Joe Murray Rivers, Jr. Intermodal Transit Center, 610 West Oglethorpe Avenue, will continue to stop there, although they will be re-routed during the parade. The routes that

To better match service to current staffing levels, Chatham Area Transit will reduce the frequency and modify operating hours of some fixed-route bus routes, effective Monday, March 14. (Find updated service schedules here) The changes are being implemented in response to a continuing operator shortage and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We want to provide

Chatham Area Transit services are expected to be disrupted on Saturday due to a large number of employees taking off to attend the funeral of a long-time operator who passed away last week. CAT is attempting to get alternative operators to fill the shifts that will be impacted, but there are still expected to be

Starting on Monday, March 14, Chatham Area Transit will begin allowing full seating capacity on its fixed-route buses, CAT Mobility paratransit vehicles and Savannah Belles Ferry boats. CAT implemented half-capacity restrictions on all service vehicles at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to allow for more space for passengers to spread out. The decision to

Listed below is the monthly schedule of public meetings for the Chatham Area Transit Board of Directors that will take place in March. All of the meetings will be held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual meetings can be viewed live on CAT’s YouTube page at: https://www.youtube.com/chathamareatransit. CAT Board Committee Meetings Date: March

Chatham Area Transit recently increased the base pay rate of existing and new CAT Mobility paratransit operators, to make CAT more competitive in today’s labor market. The pay rate for full-time and part-time paratransit operators has been increased from $12.45 to $14.25 per hour. Paratransit operators for the CAT Mobility service provide reservation-based transportation for