Committee to Consider CAT Bus Recommendations Today

The Public Works Committee of the Anderson County Council will meet today at 1 p.m. in the historic courthouse downtown to consider the fate of the Clemson Area Transit bus route in Anderson. 

The committee hopes to complete evaluation of information about the cost of funding the CAT bus route and the Homeland Park bus route as part of the meeting.

A complete packet of information, including surveys and detailed information on who uses the buses, can be dowloaded here.

The Clemson Area Transit bus, which runs from the city of Anderson to Clemson, Pendleton and Central, with other stops along the way, provides transportation primarily to students attending Tri-County Technical College, Clemson and Southern Wesleyan University. The CAT bus, according to the county serves nearly 150,000 riders each year. 

The Homeland Park bus route. which served nearly 40,000 passengers last year, is also in question.

The county reported that it will take more than $350,000 annually to operate the bus routes, with $180,000 going to the CAT bus and the remainder to the Homeland Park route.

A recommendation on if or whether the county will continue to fund the buses, is expected to be presented to the full county council soon. Without a new agreement, both buses will end service at the end of 2013.