Capital Area Transit makes changes to its fall service schedule
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Article RatingCapital Area Transit has announced changes in its fall service schedule to take effect Monday.
“Our scheduling department is constantly reviewing the service we offer to improve the timing and routes for our customers,” Jim Hoffer, CAT executive director, said, “and I’m confident that the fall changes will continue to improve our services.”
“We have had consistent ridership growth over the past four years, with ridership up over 11 percent in July 2008 over July 2007, in part due to the continued adjustments and additions we are making,” he said.
CAT fares remain the same, with a one-way cash fare starting at $1.65 or a monthly pass starting at $45.
Routes will have either time adjustments, routing adjustments or slight service level adjustments. All changes are now on the CAT Web site at www.cattransit.com.
The affected routes and changes are listed below.
• Route 3 - Third Street on weekdays: 10:10 a.m. an additional northbound trip has been added.
• Route 7 - Cameron Street to Middleton Street on weekdays: a new earlier trip from Middletown at 5:40 a.m. The 6 a.m. trip will arrive at North Street at 6:46 a.m., not 6:45 a.m.. The 7:53 a.m. arrival at Riverfront Office complex will no longer go back to Market Square at 7:55 a.m. but will instead go out of service. The 9:09 a.m. Penn State stop is now a highway stop but does not enter campus. The 4:40 p.m. express trip from Capitol Complex will go to Middletown as a local and will depart two minutes later at 4:42 p.m. The 4:47 p.m. trip to Chambers Street has been discontinued. The 4:45 p.m. trip to Riverfront Office Complex has also been discontinued.
• Route 8 - Derry Street on weekdays: the 6:20 a.m. trip to Simpson and Wilhelm streets added to schedule. The 9:07 a.m. inbound trip from Sue Drive will bypass Harrisburg Mall. The 8:10 a.m. outbound trip to Sue Drive will bypass Harrisburg Mall. The current 8:15 p.m. trip from Wal-Mart will depart at 8:05 p.m. On Saturdays a new earlier outbound trip to Wal-Mart will depart downtown at 6:45 a.m. and arrive Wal-Mart at 7:14 a.m. The inbound trip will depart Wal-Mart at 7:15 a.m. to downtown.
• Route 12 - State and Walnut streets on weekdays: a new earlier trip from Linglestown Road at 5:37 a.m. is set to arrive downtown at 6:20 a.m. The 8:40 a.m. outbound trip will go to Colonial Park Mall. The former 9:19 a.m. trip from Springford will depart at 9:25 a.m. Inbound and outbound trips will no longer serve the Gander Mountain complex. A new later outbound trip to Paxton Towne Center will depart downtown at 9:05 p.m. An inbound trip to downtown will depart at 9:40 p.m. The current 9:01 p.m. trip from Colonial Commons will depart from Paxton Towne Center at 9:05 p.m. The 8:09 a.m. inbound trip from Colonial Park has been discontinued. On Saturdays, the current 7 a.m. trip which now terminates at Colonial Park will extend to Paxton Towne Center. A new earlier inbound trip from Paxton Towne Center at 7:59 a.m. is set to arrive downtown at 8:35 a.m. The 6:46 a.m. inbound trip from 38th and Walnut streets has been discontinued.
• Route 21 on weekdays: the 5:05 p.m. outbound trip has been discontinued and the current 5:20 p.m. inbound trip has been changed to depart at 5:15 p.m.
• Route 23 - Upper Dauphin on weekdays: a new 6:40 a.m. trip from Dauphin Park and Ride has been added as has a new 4:25 p.m. trip from downtown to Dauphin Park and Ride. Millersburg and Elizabethville buses will bypass Dauphin. Express routing will be via Cameron Street.
• Route 81 – Shippensburg on weekdays: the current 6:40 a.m. trip from Shippensburg will bypass Newville. The new 6:51 a.m. trip from Newville will also serve Carlisle at 7:05 a.m. and arrive in Harrisburg 7:50 a.m.
• Route Carlisle on weekdays: a new express trip from Carlisle at 7:05 a.m. has been added. Express trips will operate to and from Harrisburg via Cameron and McClay streets rather than Front street.
• Route 322 – Hershey on weekdays: a new seasonal schedule has eliminated Hershey Park diversions and Saturday service entirely. All trips will operate via the new Hershey Intermodal Terminal in downtown Hershey. Buses will load and unload in the berths behind the terminal building. A current 5:37 p.m. trip to Hershey will depart earlier at 5:20 p.m. The Hershey schedule will show connections to and from COLT trips to Palmyra and Lebanon.
• Route Lemoyne Shuttle on weekdays: currently there are nine daily round trips. Service will be reduced to three daily round trips. Highmark Blue Shield will be serviced by an additional pick up at 5:00 p.m. and continue to Holy Spirit Hospital at 5:06 p.m. Market Street at 12th Street will pick up at 5:15 p.m. and arrive at the Transfer Center at 5:21 p.m. This is currently not on the printed schedules but will begin on Sept. 8 and run on a daily basis.
