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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, May 30, 2018 ] ]
New CAT Buses Will Enhance
Customers’Transit Experience
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For All News Is Friday 5p.m.
Last Friday, the
Chatham Area Transit Au
thority unveiled the first of
18 new 35-ft buses being
added into its fleet during
a brief program showcas
ing the new vehicles. For
comparison, transit officials
displayed one of its oldest
buses in the fleet with an
odometer reading of nearly
706,000 miles.
The sleek new bus
es, featuring wider aisles,
seating for more than 30
people and standing room
for up to 30 more, were as
sembled by one of the tran
sit industry’s premier bus
manufacturers, Gillig, LLC
located in Livennore, CA.
As of Friday, 11 of
the 18 new buses were on
site. Special software and
other prep work must be
completed next week before
the buses will be placed into
service next month.
“We are ecstat
ic the new buses are here,”
Board Chair Howard French
said. “This is just the be
ginning of the significant
changes customers will
experience within the next
several months. The Board,
staff and I are committed
to continuous improvement
and providing a great transit
experience to our custom
ers.”
Funding for the
new vehicles is the result
of a successful grant appli
cation to the State of Geor
gia’s GO! Transit program,
administered by the State
Road and Tollway Authority
(SRTA). Approximately 80
percent of the SI0.7 million
purchase was SRTA funding
and the remaining 20 per
cent was from the Chatham
County Special Local Op
tion Sales Tax (SPLOST).
In addition to rep
resentatives from SRTA,
City of Savannah, Chatham
County, and other commu
nity leaders, today’s “Out
with the Old/In with the
New” buses celebration
featured comments from
two of CAT’s frequent rid
ers. Cameron Morrison,
who has been riding the
service for about two years
now made the following
comments today during the
event.
“I have been rid
ing the bus mainly on the
weekends to the mall or the
movies because it’s easy
and it makes my mom feel
better about my safety. She
knows the schedule because
we have the app so she
knows what time I will get
to the mall or the movies,
and what time I will come
home,” Morrison said. “I
plan to ride more this sum
mer because I will be work
ing at the mall. Teenagers
like me want the freedom to
ride transit throughout the
community and it is great
that we can now take these
trips on new buses,” Morri
son added.
The transit author
ity’s CEO Curtis Koleber
and other CAT Board mem
bers also participated in bus
celebration and thanked the
many supporters who have
advocated for such improve
ments.
“Tliis is a great
day for our transit agency
and the community. We are
taking extremely old equip
ment, past the industry’s
standard of useful life, out
of the fleet and replacing
these nearly antique buses
with new state-of-the-art
vehicles,” Koleber said.
“With this vehicle purchase,
and the one for 28 new CAT
Mobility vans, and our oth
er strategic plans, we are
moving toward the goal of
high quality services that I
know our staff is capable of
providing to the citizens and
visitors of Chatham Coun
ty-”
Last year’s annual
combined ridership for the
transit agency’s fixed route
buses, CAT Mobility ser
vices for people with dis-
In Coving Memory
Mr Jonathan Charlton Alexander, Sr
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God lias you in his arms,
wc Iieivc you in our hearts.
You departed this life May 25, 2UIIK
Sadly missed by your son, Jonathan Alexander,
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grandchildren: Jonathan Alexander III
ami Sheryl Alexander.
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Exceptional Women’s Ministry
Tea Patobu,
On Saturday, May 5,2018, ihc Rosalind
M. Kent Exceptional Women Ministry of St.
James AMF Church hosted its first Ladies Tea
Party. The Wilson-Host ic Complex was a sea
of beauty with table dee oral ions in an array of
colors and ihc ladies attired in the colors or
(heir tables wearing hats to match
The afternoon was spent in enjoyable
activities, praise, lunch, a parade of hats,
readings, songs and the awarding of door prizes.
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A tribute was paid to the late Rev.
Rosalind M. Kent, who organized ihc
Exceptional Women M iristry during her pastorate
at St, James. The tribute emphasized her motto
“AI3C - Always He Culc" as a women of God.
Sis Saundra Scott, the new First Lady
of Si. Junes hosted several other fust ladies
of the city as her special guests. Rev. Felicia A. Alston
and Sis. Salathia White served as co-chairpersons
of the Tea. Rev. Anthony Scott is llie Pastor
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