History
The bus system in Charleston was operated by SCE&G until 1997, when the City of Charleston, City of North Charleston, Town of Mt. Pleasant and Charleston County joined together to create the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA). The transportation service provider explored many avenues to increase funding over the years but no source provided enough to keep CARTA from making substantial reductions in service.
In early November 2004, a half-cent sales tax referendum was passed (following one instance where it failed and another overturned), providing CARTA with the revenue to relaunch many of the services that were eliminated or consolidated due to insufficient funding. CARTA even added new routes and services throughout their rebuilding phases, as was the case with the launch of #CARTA Express in January 2007.
Veolia Transportation, a private international transportation company, is responsible for staffing and managing the bus drivers, and maintaining and scheduling the buses.
On September 1, 2010 Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority suffered a budget problem which stranded 22,443 passengers during the day and 40,500 passengers during the night.
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