Charlottesville Area Transit

KS

A nice homeless man complemented my shoes. Would def come back for another compliment

Kirill Bor

Most unreliable consistently horrible public transport I’ve seen in my life. Can either leave a stop 3 minutes early or 10 minutes late. Can leave right without you while you are about to board. Can completely ignore certain stops and speed up preventing a requested stop… not that they’d listen anyways.

Rebecca Light

It was Route 7 (Bus 117) from Fashion Square around 11 AM to Downtown Transit Station at 12:30 PM. I was supposed to get off where I live at the Barracks Rd Transfer Point. But as I was gathering my things, the driver took off and I almost feel, and even though several people were shouting to stop the driver kept going. There wasn't any reasonable way the driver couldn't have heard me... That having been said... take it from someone who has personally been dead before - time is your most valuable thing in life. Aside from Knowledge, Wisdom, Friends, and several other thing, it's time which is one of your most valuable things in life. Yes, the "other side" is great, yes, you can "reincarnate" ... but that's not here, now, in this life, and time is your most valuable thing, and so it should be managed wisely. Today, this driver took my time... Look, I get it, the driver (in spite of everyone shouting loud enough to wake the dead, no pun intended and jokes aside) probably just made an honest mistake and wasn't paying attention, or simply was in a bad mood. I don't know... and my advice is if there is a passion they'd rather pursue or career they'd rather be happier in then I would encourage their pursuit of that. I am not mad, I am still considerably frustrated. Please, try to do better next time... I get it, we're all human, but we just need to try harder. EDIT: I am also having typed this up on my phone at the DTS because I was going to ride it there and submit my complaint in person, only to find the DTS cooked or closed or whatever. So I am having to spend time riding back and I didn't even submit this in person. But whatever...

Nico Aldredge

Buses are chronically late, or never even show up. I have lived in Charlottesville for several years now and it has always been the same. Service has been reduced during the pandemic, with city buses from the hospital now only running every hour in the afternoon. This makes getting home from work very challenging for hospital employees. The drivers also scare me with their driving habits. Frequently driving over the speed limit on residential roads, failing to stop completely, and hitting the brakes so hard that I have to brace myself on the handrails. Without seatbelts, I view this as a safety issue.