Capital Area Transit Announces “Free Ride Week” in
Carlisle
(Harrisburg) -- Capital Area Transit announced today that all Carlisle Circulator
buses serving the Borough of Carlisle will be free to all riders for the entire week
starting Monday, March 23, and ending Saturday, March 28, 2015, according to
Robert Philbin, CAT spokesperson.
This week, CAT will direct mail 25,000 Carlisle Circulator Free Ride Week
postcards to every mailing address in the Borough of Carlisle. CAT will also provide
hundreds of free ride week post cards to the Boswell Memorial Library, the
Cumberland County Commissioner’s office in the Courthouse, the Carlisle Chamber
of Commerce, the Carlisle Downtown Association, the Cumberland County Public
Assistance Office, Project Share, the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Regional
Medical Center, and Weiss Market on High Street.
“We instituted a new expanded circulator route, based on public requests, and
added a second bus to reduce travel time in the Borough on February 9,” Philbin
said. “We saw an increase in ridership by late February and decided to add a free
week of service so that first time riders could give the Circulator a try,” he added.
“That first ride is always the hardest,” Philbin said, “so riding free for a week should
give folks a chance to experience just how valuable public transportation can be to
enhance any community.”
Surveys have shown that public transit in a community reduces carbon fuel
environmental impact, saves riders about $10,000 per year versus using a car;
increases property values, increases access to jobs for both employers and jobseekers and provides access to health care, public assistance and retail shopping –
all of which helps build and improve communities.
Capital Area Transit was incorporated in 1973 when Cumberland County and
Dauphin County Commissioners and the City of Harrisburg organized CAT to
provide mass transit Fixed-Route and Paratransit shared-ride services, which today
conveniently and safely transport about 3 million riders a year in the thousand
square mile capital region. Visit www.cattransit.com, follow CAT on Twitter at
@CATTransit, or call CAT’s Public Information Office at 717-238-8304 for more
information. “Where CAT Goes, Community Grows.”