Effective January 6, 2019
Route 31 is being modified to improve the efficiency of the route
Route 31 Folly Road – Summary of Changes
- Route will now travel on Calhoun St. in the downtown area and will no longer travel on Spring St./Cannon St. improving the route choices for passengers.
- Route will provide direct service to MUSC and CofC.
- Route will provide better connections between James Island and West Ashley with new transfer point to Rt. 33 at Croghan Spur and Fielding Connector (Near Ripley Point Rd/California Dreaming).
- Route will service Central Park Ave. and Fleming Rd. going toward downtown.
- Route will continue to service Secessionville Rd., however, the route will no longer serve Old Military Rd./Battery Island Rd. Ext.
- Route will now service Grimball Rd. Ext.
- Route is extended to Harris Teeter at Folly Rd. and Sol Legare Rd.
- Route will now offer more trips on weekdays; 3 more trips on Saturday and 2 more trips on Sunday.
- Route will provide earlier trips in AM with service will now starting at 5:25 a.m.
- In line with goals to reduce the length of time between trips, the wait time has decreased by an average of 25 minutes. The frequency of this route will improve from 1 hour,45 minutes to 1 hour,20 minutes and from 90 minutes to 70 minutes on Saturday.
New stops downtown Charleston
- Calhoun St./Jonathan Lucas St.
- Calhoun St./Ashley Ave.
- Calhoun St./St. Phillip St.
New stops on Fleming Rd./Central Park Rd. area
- Central Park/Folly Rd. (across the street from the current stop, on Central Park)
- Central Park @ EME Apartments (across the street from the current stop)
- Central Park/Fleming Rd. (across the street from the current stop)
- Fleming Rd./Hollings Rd.
- Fleming Rd./Stir Creek Rd.
- Fleming Rd./Maybank Hwy. (Shelter being installed by The Standard at James Island Apartments)
- Maybank Hwy./Wappoo Creek Dr. (across from current stop)
Additional new stop
- Croghan Spur/Fielding Connector (both sides of the street) – Connecting transfer point to Rt. 33
