Petersburg Area Transit

Petersburg Area Transit

Parent	City of Petersburg
Founded	City Acquired 1977
Headquarters	100 West Washington Street
Locale	Petersburg, Virginia
Service area	Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Ettrick Virginia State University, McGuire Veterans Hospital, Richmond VA and Fort Gregg-Adams
Service type	bus service, paratransit
Alliance	GRTC, Blackstone Bus Service
Routes	12 Local Routes, 2 Express routes (operated by partner agencies)
Stops	380
Stations	1
Fleet	Gillig 35 Ft BRT, Arboc Sprit Of Freedom, F550 Medium Duty, Trolley
Fuel type	Diesel, Gas, Propane
Operator	City Of Petersburg
Chief executive	Transit Director Charles Koonce Jr
Website	http://www.petersburg-va.org/299/Petersburg-Area-Transit

Petersburg Area Transit is a bus system for the Petersburg Tri-cities Area. There are twelve color-coded routes that extend to such destinations as Virginia State University, Southpark Mall, and Fort Gregg-Adams.

In a partnership with Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC), PAT provides express service to Downtown Richmond and any other destinations accessible by GRTC. As of June 2009, in addition to the service to Richmond, Blackstone Bus Service offers and express route that travels from Blackstone, VA through Dinwiddie into the City of Petersburg. Dinwiddie Express utilizes the Petersburg Transit Station and normally parks in track 7. In 2020 Petersburg Area Transit suspended service to Central State Hospital and the Amazon Shipping facility in Dinwiddie due to lack of ridership. PAT hopes in the future there will be a need to restore this service.

A centralized multi-modal transit hub for the PAT is now being used as the transfer point for all buses. It is located at the corner of Union at Washington streets and Wythe at Union Streets.

Routes

• 1 Washington Street/Summit Point Apartments
• 2 Halifax Street/Petersburg East Apartments
• 3 Lee Ave/Pecan Acres/Greenwood Farms
• 4 Virginia Avenue/Petersburg High School
• 5 Mall/Plaza via Sycamore Street
• 6 Ettrick/Virginia State University
• 8 Walnut Hill/Tanglewood Apartments/Food Lion/Battlefield Park/Oakhurst
• 9 South Crater Road/Walmart/Social Services
• 10 Southpark Mall/American Family Fitness/Wal-Mart/Enterprise Rental Car/Marshall's/Burlington
• 11 Blandford/Fort Gregg-Adams/Hopewell Crossings
• 14 City of Hopewell/John Randolph Hospital/Hopewell High School
• 15 460/County Drive/Pine Tree Apartments
• 16 Richmond Express/McGuire Veterans Hospital/Downtown Richmond Virginia

See also

• Transportation in Virginia

External links

Route Schedules, Time Points and Turn by Turn Routes | Petersburg, VA