Website updated for CAT riders

Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 | 9 a.m.

The Regional Transportation Commission, which provides bus service throughout the urban area, has redesigned its website to provide better and more up-to-date information for riders.

New features on the website include a regular electronic newsletter and a subscription service to receive updates on specific features of the RTC's bus, paratransit and other transportation services. The subscription updates can provide specialized information on 72 subjects, among them Citizens Area Transit routes and schedules, public meetings, job openings and new projects such as the Las Vegas Monorail and the Metropolitan Area Express, both scheduled to begin carrying passengers in March.

The redesigned website (www.rtcsouthernnevada.com) should help many of the CAT system riders easily find information that they can use to move around the community, RTC spokeswoman Ingrid Reisman said.

She said the old RTC website assumed that visitors knew that the agency provided CAT bus service. The redesigned site is "more user friendly," Reisman said.

Riders seeking to plan their routes will find animation showing bus routes and a static map for printing. Would-be riders can also just plug in a street name to find all the street's bus stops. Frequent riders could soon become regular website visitors, Reisman predicted, because they will find regular updates to detours or system interruptions, as well as news about new services, routes and other information.

Reisman said the agency will save $250,000 annually by putting its old, printed quarterly newsletter, On the Move, online. The last printed issue of the newsletter went out last year to 617,000 Clark County residents.