South Carolina: Shipwatch Square Transit & Workforce

Lowcountry Gets High-tech Transit

Challenge: There is nothing “super” about Charleston, South Carolina’s Superstop transit hub. In fact, the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) Chair told local news channel WCSC 5, “It’s not modern. It’s not updated. It’s not big enough. It doesn’t have enough capacity for buses, for passengers…”

Solution: With help from the federal infrastructure investment law, a new, modern hub and brand-new cleaner buses are on the way. The plan is to build a new Shipwatch Square Transit and Workforce Center – a 15,000-square-foot facility with 10 bus bays, a passenger wait area, seven battery electric buses and two on-route fast chargers. For Lowcountry transit riders, cleaner, more efficient bus trips are on the way.

What they’re saying: “We need to work alongside the service industry and realize that time is valuable to everybody,” John Iacofano, Mount Pleasant Councilman (Charleston City Paper, 07/21/23)