INDIANAPOLIS — Based on years of planning, IndyGo, with the support of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority (CIRTA), is shepherding a Marion County transit plan through a public involvement process. Throughout the month of February, public meetings, community outreach, and input opportunities will solidify a strategy for significant mass transit improvements in Indianapolis.
This spring, the IndyGo Board of Directors could endorse a Marion County plan aligned with this regional strategy while serving local needs. By 2021, the expanded system would bring high-frequency service to nearly 250,000 more residents and jobs, running seven days a week with a 71 percent increase in total service hours.
Aside from the proposed Red, Blue, and Purple rapid transit lines in the plan, sweeping improvements to the local bus service have been detailed including buses coming more often, earlier in the morning, and later into the night. A new grid pattern for the bus system will make for easy transfers and quicker travel seven days a week.
Public meeting locations and dates include:
• Feb. 15 at Community Alliance of the Far Eastside (CAFÉ) 8902 E. 38th Street from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. with a brief presentation at 5:30 p.m.
• Feb. 27 at Central Library
Knoll Meeting Room, from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. with a brief presentation at 12:30 p.m.
Plan details are available online and at the IndyGo Retail Center, 34 N. Delaware Street. In addition, IndyGo is also offering unstaffed information displays at various library branches. Comments can be made in writing at a meeting or at an unstaffed information display, online, or through customer service at 317-635-3344.