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They do. When Charleston quit running its transit service a few years back, people quit showing up to work, and people were walking everywhere. The business community passed a small sales tax to pay for transit and other transportation improvements. Its my understanding that the business community got behind it because they needed people ot be able to show up for work.

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Architecture for Humanity's (AFH) Charleston chapter is hosting an open design competition for students and professionals. The competition is asking for designs for a transportation hub on the Peninsula, and a prototypical node transit station. The Hub calls for bus, pedestrian, cyclist, and light rail transit components. The selected site is adjacent to the Visitor's Center, with maximum frontage coming on Meeting Street. You can view more information on the competition here: AFHCharleston

Of course, this is an IDEAS competition, meaning it is entirely hypothetical. But, its intent is to generate ideas, and get people thinking seriously about the future of transit in Charleston. If you go to the website, I thought it was pretty interesting to see why exactly they chose to sponsor this particular program for a competition. It basically comes from tourists responding about their experiences with negative feedback on getting around and public transportation. Furthermore, of course, sustainability and the environment also play a factor...

There will be an exhibition of the designs at the AIA-South Carolina conference in Hilton Head in October.

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CARTA extends services to Summerville

By Nick Johnson

[email protected]

Published June 28, 2012

The Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority, or CARTA, announced it will extend its services to Summerville for the first time.

The new route, known as the Dorchester Road Express Route 3, will run from Summerville to downtown Charleston.

“We have received numerous requests over the years to extend service to Summerville,” said CARTA Executive Director Christine Wilkinson. “We know there is a need to service neighboring communities and we are pleased that we are able to connect the current system to Summerville. This service was carefully planned and we believe this will be a highly utilized efficient route.”

The route will be a limited-stop service, which runs during the peak travel times Monday through Friday. The route will run on Dorchester Road with stops in North Charleston at both Bosch and Boeing.

The route will also continue downtown and make four stops, including:

  • Meeting and Columbus streets, near the Piggly Wiggly store
  • Meeting and John streets, near the Charleston Visitors Center and the Charleston Museum
  • Calhoun and St. Philip streets, near the College of Charleston campus
  • Calhoun and Jonathan Lucas streets, near the Medical University of South Carolina

http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/news/44358-carta-extends-services-to-summerville?rss=0

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CARTA extends services to Summerville

By Nick Johnson

[email protected]

Published June 28, 2012

The Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority, or CARTA, announced it will extend its services to Summerville for the first time.

The new route, known as the Dorchester Road Express Route 3, will run from Summerville to downtown Charleston.

“We have received numerous requests over the years to extend service to Summerville,” said CARTA Executive Director Christine Wilkinson. “We know there is a need to service neighboring communities and we are pleased that we are able to connect the current system to Summerville. This service was carefully planned and we believe this will be a highly utilized efficient route.”

The route will be a limited-stop service, which runs during the peak travel times Monday through Friday. The route will run on Dorchester Road with stops in North Charleston at both Bosch and Boeing.

The route will also continue downtown and make four stops, including:

  • Meeting and Columbus streets, near the Piggly Wiggly store
  • Meeting and John streets, near the Charleston Visitors Center and the Charleston Museum
  • Calhoun and St. Philip streets, near the College of Charleston campus
  • Calhoun and Jonathan Lucas streets, near the Medical University of South Carolina

http://www.charlesto...mmerville?rss=0

This is great news for transit in Charleston!

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On 7/20/2016 at 4:47 AM, vicupstate said:

County Council voted to put the 1/2 cent on the November ballot. The controversial I-526 extension was removed from the list of projects that would be funded. I expect this has a decent chance of passing, based on my knowledge of Charleston politics.. 

Two days later the council reversed itself and removed the question from the ballot.  

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Half-Cent for Road, Mass transit and Greenbelt funding passed narrowly yesterday in Charleston.  I haven't seen anything about the BRT plans. Hopefully Proterra can get Charleston to buy some Electric Buses.  

 

In Charleston County, 51 percent voted for the half-cent sales tax increase, raising the total sales tax rate in the county to 9 percent. The additional tax will raise $2.1 billion to fund mass transit, road improvements and more greenspace.

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg, who endorsed the half-cent sales tax, saw it as a victory.

"Today, the voters of Charleston County made it clear that they want real traffic relief, and they're prepared to do what's necessary to fund it,” he said. “Now it's our duty as public servants to work closely with our citizens to ensure that these new transportation and public transit dollars are spent wisely, and only on projects that directly relieve traffic and improve our citizens' quality of life."

More than half the money will be spent on about a dozen road projects, including the widening of S.C. Highway 41 and Dorchester Road. About $600 million will go to the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority to improve its fleet of buses and develop the area’s first bus rapid transit system.

The county’s greenbelt program, created when the first half-cent sales tax was approved in 2004, will get $210 million to purchase more green spaces.

The 2004 sales tax will remain in effect until it brings in $1.3 billion or until 2030, whichever comes first. The additional half-cent tax would remain in effect until it raises $2.1 billion, or for 25 years, whichever comes first.

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