Please Write to CAT To Prevent More Visual Pollution by 2:00 PM Tuesday June 16, 2026
We have been informed that the Chatham Area Transit Authority (CAT) is planning to wrap its buses with paid-for advertising, increasing the visual blight that excessive advertising creates. This initiative creates the risk of the buses being entirely covered in gaudy jarring designs.
We also understand that CAT plans to placed lighted digital advertising in its bus shelters.
Since CAT operates throughout Chatham County, this new barrage of advertising will have a damaging effect on the visual experience in our historic downtown and other neighborhoods.
If you are concerned, please write an email BY TUESDAY JUNE 16, 2026 to both Ms. Stephanie Cutter, Director of CAT: Stephanie.cutter@catchacat.org, and our alderman, Detric Leggett, Board Chair of CAT: dleggett@savannahga.gov. Please copy BOTH the OPC at opc.preservation@gmail.com and CAT at meetings@catchacat.org. In the subject line put “Objection to Advertising Proposal for CAT Buses and Bus Shelters.”
Here’s a sample letter:
Dear Ms. Cutter and Alderman Leggett,
I object to the proposal to wrap CAT buses in advertising and to place digital advertising in bus shelters. This is an unwarranted intrusion of advertising into the public space, which creates visual blight and over-commercializes many residential and mixed-use communities. Please do not permit this uglification of our visual environment.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
[Address]
In addition, there is a public hearing on CAT’s budget at the CAT building at 900 East Gwinnett Street on June 16 at 4 PM. If you can, please attend the hearing. The public can testify.
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