catch the cat founded 1975 headquarters 615 east water street locale charlottesville virginia service area city of charlottesville albemarle county virginia service type bus service routes 11 fleet 36 daily ridership 6 641 . total passengers carried in fy15 was 2 423 740 fuel type diesel hybrid website charlottesville area transit historic charlottesville transit service logo used until mid 2010 charlottesville area transit formerly charlottesville transit service 1 is the provider of mass transportation in charlottesville virginia . the organization was formed in 1975 when the city bought out yellow transit company which held a private monopoly on city busing . in 1999 the agency took a big leap in terms of providing better service and gaining more ridership as it established a free shuttle route which is officially called a trolley using green painted trolley style buses connected downtown with the university of virginia . in 2007 the university transit service and charlottesville area transit entered into an open ridership agreement that allows uva students faculty and staff ride cat for free by showing a valid uva id card . 2 eleven routes are offered monday through saturday from the early morning until the late evening . sunday service is only available on the free trolley and route 7 . route list edit free trolley uva downtown free 1 east market street piedmont virginia community college downtown 2 5th street station downtown 3 belmont southwood downtown 4 cherry ave fry s spring uva hospital downtown 5 barracks road shopping center fashion square wal mart 6 ridge st uva hospital downtown 7 fashion square mall shops at stonefield barracks road shoping center uva hospital downtown 8 barracks road shopping center seminole square shops at stonefield downtown 9 10th st rose hill drive greenbrier drive fashion square mall 10 pantops sentra martha jefferson hospital downtown 11 fashion square mall catec downtown 12 fashion square walmart downtown references edit with new bus service name come route revisions . daily progress . 10 august 2010 . retrieved 15 february 2010 . http www.virginia.edu parking tdm driven openridership.html external links edit charlottesville area transit this article related to bus transportation in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about transportation in virginia is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title charlottesville area transit & oldid 743350859 categories bus transportation in virginiatransportation in charlottesville virginiatransit agencies in virginiaunited states bus transportation stubsvirginia transportation stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 07 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view