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St. Charles Area Transit - Wikipedia

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St. Charles Area Transit
Headquarters	201 N. Second Street St. Charles, Missouri
Service area	St. Charles County, Missouri
Service type	Bus
Routes	5
Fuel type	Diesel
Website	SCAT Transit System

St. Charles Area Transit, branding its service as SCAT, is a public transportation service located in St. Charles County, Missouri. The goal of the service is to provide mass transit access for these St. Louis, Missouri suburbs, which are not part of the city's Bi-State Development Agency transportation system. Four local bus routes are provided, plus one commuter route to St. Louis County, Missouri.

Routes

All of these routes converge on St. Charles O'Dell Senior Center.

I-70 Commuter - St. Joseph's Hospital to North Hanley
Orange Line - St. Charles Convention Center to 5th & Boone's Lick
Red Line - 6th & First Capitol to Cunningham & Boone's Lick
Blue Line - Three Flags Center to St. Charles Convention Center
Green Line - Hwy 94 & Veterans to First Capitol & Boone's Lick

Plans

St. Charles City Streetcar: The City of St. Charles along with Whittaker Homes have formed a Trolley Committee and having initial talks about the possibility of bringing a streetcar system to the new city development called New Town St. Charles. At least nine PCC streetcars were brought from San Francisco to make the system a reality for the heritage of New Town. The streetcars will run on a seven-mile loop that will connect from New Town to downtown St. Charles.

Criticism

Local environmental groups have been critical that SCAT isn't being serious enough to bring transit into St. Charles County, especially with urban sprawl in St. Charles County that is spilling over into Warren County, the construction of New Town in the floodplains of North St. Charles County, and several attempts by local civic leaders in O'Fallon and Dardenne Prairie to expand their civic plans across U.S. Route 40 into the Busch Wildlife Conservation Area.^{[citation needed]}

Some have argued that St. Charles County resists expanding or integrating their transit system with St. Louis Metro Transit for fear of rising costs and a shift in ridership demographic.^{[citation needed]} A few critics have accused St. Charles County's resistance due to "white flight" and the New Urbanism movement.^{[citation needed]}

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v t e Public transportation in Greater St. Louis
Public transit agencies	Madison County Transit Metro Transit St. Clair County Transit District
Local and express bus service	Illinois: Madison County Transit MetroBus Missouri: MetroBus
Demand response	Illinois: Alternative Transportation System Madison County Transit Missouri: Metro Call-A-Ride Via Metro STL
Light rail	MetroLink: Red Line Blue Line Green Line List of MetroLink stations MidAmerica Airport Extension Previous Proposals
Streetcar	Loop Trolley
Infrastructure	Cross County Tunnels Downtown Tunnel Eads Bridge MacArthur Bridge Merchants Bridge Union Station Baggage Tunnel Yards & Depots
Intercity rail	Amtrak: Alton Station Gateway Transportation Center Kirkwood Station Lincoln Service Missouri River Runner Texas Eagle
Intercity bus	Amtrak Thruway Burlington Trailways Greyhound Lines Megabus
Airports	St. Louis-Lambert International^(IATA:STL) MidAmerica St. Louis^(IATA:BLV) Spirit of St. Louis^(IATA:SUS) St. Louis Downtown^(IATA:CPS) St. Louis Regional^(IATA:ALN)
Other	Bi-State Development Agency East-West Gateway Council of Governments Transportation in St. Louis
Italics denote lines or service which are planned or not operating

v t e Public transit in Missouri
Statewide	Amtrak Lincoln Service Missouri River Runner Southwest Chief Texas Eagle Burlington Trailways Greyhound Lines Jefferson Lines Oats Transit List of intercity bus stops in Missouri
St. Louis	Metro Transit: MetroBus Metro Call-A-Ride MetroLink Red Line Blue Line Loop Trolley Via Metro STL St. Charles City Transit
Kansas City	RideKC KC Streetcar Kansas City Area Transportation Authority Metro Area Express
North	Kirk-Tran St. Joseph Transit
Central	Go COMO JeffTran
South	Bluff Area Transit Service Cape Girardeau Transit Authority MAPS Transit The Bus (Springfield) West Plains Transit System
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