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Discovering an Alternative
Would you like to find an alternative to driving your car to work in traffic and congestion? Do you need transportation to your medical appointments? There are many different ways to get around.
Knoxville Area Transit (KAT)
Knoxville Area Transit is the largest provider of public transit in the Knoxville Region. KAT focuses a majority of its services within the City of Knoxville but does provide some service in Knox County outside the city limits. KAT provides fixed route bus service, downtown trolley circulators, the University of Tennessee campus service, and door-to-door paratransit service for those persons who are disabled.
For more information about KAT or its routing please call (865) 637-3000 or visit their website at www.katbus.com.
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East Tennessee Human Resource Agency (ETHRA)
ETHRA provides public transportation to residents living in the sixteen counties of East Tennessee. Their goal is to provide affordable, safe, quality, dependable transportation to citizens of a sixteen county area, including all areas in the Knoxville Region. While ETHRA’s main focus is to serve residents who have no other source of transportation for medical, essential errands, and employment trips, their service is available to the general public. ETHRA provides demand response service, typically meaning pick-up and drop-off times are prearranged.
For more information, visit the EHTRA website.
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Gatlinburg Trolley System
The Gatlinburg Trolley System provides service on seven fixed routes throughout the City of Gatlinburg with connections to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Dollywood, and the Welcome Centers.
For more information visit the Gatlinburg Trolley website.
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Knox County Transit (Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee [CAC] Transportation Program)
Knox County Transit (KCT) serves to increase access to community resources for all Knox County residents who have no other means of transportation. The KCT program serves people of all ages and is limited by restrictions to providing service based on funding and/or by requirements for utilizing services. Priority is given to health care related trips. Fares are determined on a sliding scale. KCT primarily provides demand response service, meaning that pick-ups and drop-offs are usually prearranged. Service is offered Monday through Friday. The KCT program also contracts with a wide variety of non-profit agencies and several hospitals and health care organizations.
KCT also offers Job Access and KCT (CAC) Guaranteed Ride Home Programs. The Job Access service is a 24-hour a day, 7-day a week demand transportation service for employment and training related purposes. This service focuses on those persons who live outside the KAT service area or whose jobs are outside the KAT service area. Transportation is provided to neighboring counties with side trips for daycare permitted. The KCT (CAC) Guaranteed Ride Home program provides emergency transportation for employment and training related purposed for eligible persons that pre-register for the service. KCT (CAC) Guaranteed Ride Home program operates 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.
For more information visit their website.
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Oak Ridge Transit System
The Oak Ridge Transit System provides service throughout the City of Oak Ridge and is available to all citizens. Oak Ridge Transit operates three ADA accessible and fourteen passenger mini-buses. Service is provided six days a week, Monday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00pm. Mini-buses will pick up passengers and transport them anywhere within the Oak Ridge city limits for $1.50 per one-way trip.
For more information visit their website.
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Pigeon Forge-Sevierville Fun Time Trolley
The Pigeon Forge and Sevierville Fun Time Trolley system offers 7 trolley routes serving Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Dollywood, Wears Valley and Gatlinburg. Paratransit Service is also available.
For more information visit their webiste.
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Tennessee Vans
Tennessee Vans is a regional commuter van pool service that provides minivans and 15-passenger vans to commuters and community organizations. The program is designed to broaden economic opportunities throughout the Region by alleviating transportation barriers to employment and by improving mobility options for area workers.
Call Tennessee Vans (1-800-444-VANS) for further information.
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