To make uptown travel easier this week for CIAA fans, the Charlotte Area Transit System has announced the following changes to its Gold Rush bus service:

• The Orange Line will add stops at the Residence Inn on Mint Street and the Westin on Stonewall Street.

• A special route (the Arena/Uptown Loop) will operate with stops on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the Hilton Garden Inn and on McDowell Street near the Blake Hotel.

• The Arena/Uptown Loop also will service Johnson C. Smith University at night and on Saturday, when Red Line service to the schools ends. (The Red Line will continue its normal, daytime schedule between JCSU and Central Piedmont Community College.)

• Changes to the Orange Line, the Arena/Uptown Loop and JCSU service will start at noon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and at 11 a.m. on Saturday. It will continue until 11 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

CATS also announced the following change to the LYNX Blue Line:

• Blue Line service will begin at 4:50 a.m. Friday to get fans to The Yolanda Adams Morning Show live broadcast at the Charlotte Convention Center

In addition to ticket machines, CATS staff will sell roundtrip passes at the Woodlawn Station Wednesday through Saturday in the late afternoon as tournament action heats up at Time Warner Cable Arena. Fans also may purchase transit passes at the Charlotte Transportation Center, just across the street from the arena at 310 East Trade Street.

For fans arriving through Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, the Sprinter bus service operates every 20 minutes from Center City and every 30 minutes at night and on weekends. As with the LYNX Blue Line, a one-way ticket costs $1.75.

For more information on CATS service, call 704-336-RIDE (7433) or go online at www.ridetransit.org.

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