What's the DOT Shuttle?

By: Barbara Herring | WSAV-TV
Published: April 02, 2008

Parking in downtown Savannah can sometimes require the patience of a saint and the sharp eyes and reflexes of an eagle. If you’ve circled from Broughton to Bay trying to swoop in and find a space you know what I’m talking about and you’re probably skeptical when someone says they have a solution. Well dust off your skeptic’s hat because that is exactly what we may have found.

According to the City of Savannah’s new Director of Parking and Mobility Sean Brandon, DOT may mark the spot for a solution to downtown’s parking woes. It may look like just another shuttle bus but it also marks a new direction for the city. “This is the first phase of what is going to be a consolidated system,” explains Brandon. “There's a cat shuttle there’s a parking shuttle there are all these other shuttles moving around, this is a move to consolidating that under one brand.”

Brandon says you can park in a city parking deck, catch the shuttle out front and get off at any number of stops throughout the downtown business district. Right now, the shuttles stop at DOT signs along Broughton Street, the Pirate House on East Broad along Bay Street and eventually River Street where you can catch the next DOT branded transportation product, the Savannah Belles Ferry to Hutchinson Island.

Did I mention the whole thing is free to ride?

Of course, we all know there ain’t no such thing as a free anything so we asked Brandon who really foots the bill? “There are two levels of funding there is the Parking Fund then there is the Mobility Management Board.” He explains that the Parking Fund comes from all those parking tickets the city writes as well as fees to park in the decks while the Mobility Management Board is funding with taxes on hotels, so tourists pay and local taxpayers don’t pay for the new Shuttles.

The system is testing now and the website is still under construction but you can still catch a ride at any DOT Stop. Buses run every 15 minutes.

What's the DOT Shuttle?

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