Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) MCP Server

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Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Live CATS bus and light rail positions and arrival predictions from the agency's GTFS-Realtime feeds

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pypi · cats-mcp

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16 Sep 2026

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MIT

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cats-mcp -- uvx cats-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cats-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "cats-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cats-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cats-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cats-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "cats-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cats-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "cats-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?

Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package cats-mcp.

How do I connect Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls cats-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.