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Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) MCP Server

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Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. 59 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Sep 2026.

CATS bus and light rail trip planning, live arrivals, timetables, routes, and service alerts

Installs per day peak 47 · avg 16 · -52% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 0%
51 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
254 ms
Response time
average over 24h
59
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 22.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add queenscoach --transport http https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.queenscoach]
url = "https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "queenscoach": {
      "url": "https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "queenscoach": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://queenscoach.adamwanninger.com/mcp streamable-http sign-in 191 ms 7 min ago

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Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 254 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
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 in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?
No API key is involved. Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?
It answers our handshake in 254 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Charlotte Area Transit (CATS)?
The pypi package queenscoach was installed 59 times in the last week. Week over week that is -52%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Charlotte Area Transit (CATS) open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at queenscoach.adamwanninger.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.