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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.
East Tennessee Human Resource Agency (EHTRA)
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. Hours of service are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is preferred that trips be reserved 48 hours in advance. The cost is $1.50 per trip, $3.00 round trip. An additional $1.50 is charged for every county line crossed. ETHRA has 85 vehicles that served over 200,000 passengers in fiscal year 2004.
For more information, visit the EHTRA website.
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Gatlinburg Trolley System
The Gatlinburg Trolley System is the fifth largest system in the State. The System includes 20 trolleys that provide service on five fixed routes throughout the City of Gatlinburg with connections to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Dollywood, and the Welcome Centers. The System handles approximately 930,000 passenger trips per year.
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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. The KAT fixed route bus system consists of 28 routes served by a total of 72 buses. Service is provided from 5:30 a.m. until 12:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Sundays. KAT also provides bus service to the University of Tennessee on a comprehensive system called “The T” which consists of on and off campus fixed routes, curb-to-curb minibus service, and ADA paratransit service. Trolley service complements KAT’s bus system and serves the downtown and University of Tennessee areas on five routes served by eight antique style trolleys and four hybrid propane trolleys. Service is provided 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday. KAT also operates a demand response service for persons with disabilities called the LIFT consisting of 14 twenty-two foot vans that operate during the same days and hours as fixed route services. Total system ridership for fiscal year 2004 (FY04) was 3.2 million passengers or an average of approximately 266,000 passengers per month.
For more information, call 865-215-7850 For more information about KAT or its routing please call (865) 637-3000 or their website at www.katbus.com
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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 basis ranging from $.50 cents to $3.00. 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. For FY 2004, the KCT Transportation Program provided over 200,000 one-way trips.
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 5:30pm. Mini-buses will pick up passengers and transport them anywhere within the Oak Ridge city limits for $1.50 per one-way trip. In 2004, the system served approximately 7,000 riders.
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Pigeon Forge Fun Time Trolley
The Pigeon Forge Fun Time Trolley System provides service throughout the City of Pigeon Forge with connections to Dollywood and the Gatlinburg Welcome Center. The System handles approximately 692,000 passenger trips per year.
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Sevierville Trolley System
In the Spring of 2005, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville will be launching a cooperative transit system that will provide for integrated service to both cities. The Pigeon Forge Fun Time Trolley system will continue to operate as it has in the past, with the only change being an extension to the north loop that will now provide service into the City of Sevierville. With the addition of Sevierville’s entirely clean fuels fleet of trolleys, a new route running from the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville to Patriot Park in Pigeon Forge will fully link the service between the two cities. The proposed Phase 2 of the cooperative transit service will link the Sevier County Courthouse to the new Sevierville Events Center development north on SR 66 and will incorporate a second fleet of alternatively fueled vehicles to help confront air quality issues in the Region. This phase of the cooperative service is scheduled to come on line in the Spring of 2007.
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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. Tennessee Vans has placed 116 vans with 75 different organizations throughout the Region. Over 1,300 individuals are served creating 650,000 annual trips.
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Greyhound Bus Lines
Greyhound Bus Lines operate several intercity bus routes that connect the Knoxville Region to more than 2,200 destinations across the United States. Buses making stops in Knoxville pass through a terminal on Magnolia Avenue just outside Downtown Knoxville. The facility handles 30-40 buses each day.
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Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge Airport
The Gatlinburg/ Pigeon Forge Airport is located in Sevierville and handles approximately 50,000 aircraft operations and 44 tons of air cargo per year.
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Knoxville Downtown Island Airport
Knoxville Downtown Island Airport is a general aviation airport located on Dickinson Island near Downtown Knoxville and serves as the base for one fixed base operator and more than one hundred private and corporate aircraft. The Airport handles approximately 18,000 aircraft operations per year, none of which are related to air cargo.
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McGhee Tyson Airport
McGhee Tyson Airport, located in Blount County, is serviced by nine commercial passenger airlines, six air cargo carriers, two fixed base operators, and the Tennessee Air National Guard. In 2003, approximately 1.4 million passengers arrived or departed through McGhee Tyson Airport passenger terminals and 39,345.8 tons of freight were handled at the air cargo complex.
For more information, please visit their website.
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Skyranch Airport
Skyranch Airport, located along Alcoa Highway in South Knoxville, handled less than 5,000 personal aircraft operations each year.
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