Chatham Area Transit - Always on the move!
Chatham Area Transit has been engaged in an ongoing process to develop a downtown transit center. In March of 2006, a Site Selection Study was undertaken at the request of the CAT Board in order to search for an appropriate site for the transit center.
The proposed site for the Intermodal Transit Facility (ITF) has taken this project along several courses. Site selection culminated March 7, 2008, when the CAT Board designated the Greyhound property as the locally preferred site for submission to FTA. Since then, the project has focused on the Greyhound site, including revising the environmental document and seeking approval of the State Historic Preservation Office and Savannah Historic Review Board in accordance with FTA requirements. Then the FTA had to approve the environmental document and concur with the development of the project.
The ITF will house both CAT's Executive Office and Greyhound Operations. The Transfer Canopy and resulting Platform will hold 14 bays for buses and one location for steel-wheel streetcar. Greyhound will continue to operate, with minimal use of the facility, out of four bays to the north of the facility.
CAT has satisfied all local stakeholder concerns and received endorsement and support for this project and location from the Historic Savannah Foundation.
Funding for this project will include several grants. The total project cost is estimated at approximately $14.5 million including land acquisition, construction cost, A&E, FF&E and technology.
The local share will come from the sale of property (approximately $2.4 million to match federal funding) and Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).
The following information has been provided in pdf form for the public. The items are arranged in chronological order with the most recent at the top. Additional documentation and pictures will be added as progress on this project continues to be made. Please check back regularly to learn more.
December 2011 - Revised Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI) signed by the FTA with Attachment 1: Environmental Commitments Table
September 2011 - Amendment to the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by the FTA and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Division
April 2011 - Conceptual Site Design Studies for the Downtown Intermodal Transit Facility prepared by Cogdell & Mendrala Architects, PC in association with Wendel Duchscherer Architects & Engineers
September 2008 - Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI) signed by the FTA
Please visit the Federal Transit Administration's website for additional links and information.
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