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CATA Proposes Fall Service Changes; Community Input Meeting Scheduled

The Centre Area Transportation Authority has proposed a number service changes to go into effect this fall, including eliminating four commuter bus routes and replacing three of them with the CATA Go microtransit service.

Public comment on the proposed changes can be made on the CATA website by emailing [email protected] or contacting CATA’s Customer Service Center at 814-238-2282. A virtual Community Input Meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, with log-in information available at catabus.com/proposed-fall-service. A public hearing will be held in late May before any changes are finalized.

If adopted, the proposed changes would go into effect on Aug. 21.

Under the proposal, the B (Boalsburg), C (Houserville), XB (Bellefonte) and XG (Pleasant Gap) routes — all of which currently are temporarily discontinued — would be eliminated.

Bus service traditionally provided by the B Route and a portion of the P (Tussey Mountain) Route in Boalsburg would now be provided by the on-demand CATA Go service, which would connect with the P Route in Scenery Park and provide service to the Medical Sciences Building and Mount Nittany Medical Center.

Service traditionally provided by the XB and XG routes would now be provided by CATA Go, which currently operates in the area and which would have modified destination points outside the zone to include both CATA Bus stops at the Walmart on Benner Pike, Big Lots, two stops at the Nittany Mall, the VA Clinic, the Medical Sciences Building and the Mount Nittany Medical Center. Campus has been removed from the destination points list. CATA Go would connect with the HM Route at Walmart and provide service to the Medical Sciences Building and Mount Nittany Medical Center.

CATA Ride would remain only within three-quarters of a mile of a bus route, with service eliminated to Bellefonte, Pleasant Gap and Boalsburg. Paratransit service may be available through other agencies in these areas.

The P Route would end at Scenery Park, and service would end earlier, at 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

The A (Park Forest Village), F (Pine Grove Mills), G (Gray’s Woods), and S (Science Park) routes would remain temporarily discontinued through the fall.

CATA Ride would now operate on Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., and would continue to operate in areas where bus routes have been temporarily discontinued

No decision has been made yet on whether CATA’s Game Day Shuttle service will operate during the 2021 Penn State football season.

Service calendar changes include Saturday service beginning at 8 a.m. and continuing until 12:30 a.m.

Hourly Sunday service would operate on the HM, N, R, V, and W routes from the 8 a.m. hour until 12:30 a.m. CATA Ride service would resume within three-quarters of a mile of CATA Bus routes during the same hours.

There would no longer be service on Labor Day and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, with the exception of CATA Ride service, which would provide only life-sustaining trip.

A full list of proposed changes is available at catabus.com/proposed-fall-service.