A Year of Chronicling CATS: Telling CATS stories

By Alexys Carrasquillo
Marketing Division

A year ago, we wrote a love letter to public transit signed, “CATS Chronicles.” This year we are writing a love letter to you, our community, as we are grateful to have spent a year with you and shared so many stories here on the CATS Chronicles blog.

This past year we shared more than 15 stories and celebrated several milestones across our system!

We honored our transit pioneers like Carolyn Flowers, the first woman CEO of CATS, and Ms. Willaett Grier, the longest-standing paratransit assistant field operations supervisor in the division.

We celebrated with Murphy Whisnant on his 100th birthday and saw the way he cherished the opportunity to use STS to remain connected to his community while he navigated mobility challenges.

History was made for CATS with the first ever Customer Appreciation and Try Transit Week. We connected with riders and customers over our love for transit and our mission to move people forward.

We fell in love with Grayson and Sergio’s Rail Trail love story.

On the 48th anniversary of public transportation here in our region, we got to honor Brenda Moore, a bus operator who has been behind the wheel from the beginning.

We shared an inside look with our rail apprentices, Ja’Kiya Brown and Regine King, and human resources and communication interns, Anthoy-Xavier Smallwood and Pauline Allera.

Along the way, we accomplished some huge ordeals like launching STS+ in Mint Hill while hosting a fun event to commemorate it, receiving a Gold Standard Award from TSA and opening up the Independence Boulevard Busway to bring ease and speed to rider from center city to east Charlotte.

Here at CATS, we really love transit, but we love people more. We love the people that make this city a great place to live: our bus and rail operators, our maintenance and mechanic folks, our STS drivers, our planners and engineers, our safety personnel and too many more to name.

Most of all we are grateful to serve the wonderful people in this region. Here’s to another year of telling stories about the humans and communities that make CATS – and Charlotte – worthy of being chronicled.

We are so honored to celebrate a year of CATS Chronicles with our riders and the CATS staff that allows us to continue moving people forward.

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