PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (WTOC) -Starting Monday – Chatham Area Transit is increasing its companies to Port Wentworth.
The metropolis held a ribbon reducing earlier to kick off the brand new bus route.
Lots of cheering was heard as CAT’s enlargement into Port Wentworth turned official.
The metropolis’s mayor pro-tem says they’ve been working with CAT for a few yr now making an attempt to carry this new bus path to town.
“Everybody does not own a car, every senior citizen cannot drive, but you can depend on somebody to drive a bus to get to where you need to be. Go get groceries, go to the doctors,” stated Thomas Barbee, Mayor Pro-Tem, Port Wentworth.
Barbee says he’s additionally hoping this can assist to alleviate a few of the congestion on Port Wentworth’s roads.
“We’ll take a lot of cars off the roads, which will be great for some citizens. They’ll be able to smile because they won’t be stuck in traffic so much,” stated Barbee.
The enlargement brings in Route 5, with stops going all the way in which from the Rice Point Publix, by Transfer Point, and ending on the Intermodal Transit Center. CAT’s CEO and Executive Director says this enlargement will play an enormous function in financial growth all through the Coastal Empire.
“When you’re connecting people to the places that they need and want to go, when they can get to jobs, to health care, to education, that is an important part of how we make communities thrive and prosper,” stated Faye Dimassimo, CEO and Executive Director, Chatham Area Transit.
She says town of Port Wentworth funded about $600,000 of this enlargement and the remaining got here from federal funds leveraged by CAT.
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