What's in the Marion County Transit Plan?
The Marion County Transit Plan proposes a 70% increase in IndyGo service and features shorter waits, longer hours, more efficient transfers, and every route every day. In addition, rapid transit lines would be built and operational.  Last week we focused on routes operating every day of the week.
Shorter Wait Times
The Marion County Transit Plan proposes that most buses will come more often. Studies show that 15-minute frequency is the threshold for when riders no longer feel the need to use a schedule. If they miss a bus, they just wait for the next one. It's also no longer necessary to plan their entire day around the bus schedule. Instead they just know that whenever they go to a stop, shelter, or station on a frequent route, their bus will always be there soon.
 
The maps below show today's system compared to the proposed 2021 system. Routes on the maps are color coordinated. (click the images for larger maps)
  • Thick red routes - a rapid transit bus arrives at stations once every 10 minutes
  • Thin red routes - a bus arrives at stops and shelters once every 15 minutes
  • Blue routes - a bus arrives at stops and shelters once every 30 minutes
  • Green solid routes - a bus arrives at stops and shelters along these routes once every hour
  • Green dashed or  orange routes - buses come less than once every hour. People who use these routes have only a few times a day to catch a bus
Next newsletter: 
What does the Marion County Transit Plan Propose? More Efficient Transfers
 
Visit  www.IndyConnect.org to read past newsletters.
Request a Meeting
Would you like to know more about the transit plan? Call or email us and we will send our knowledgeable staff to your neighborhood association, church group, fraternal organization, merchants association, or any other type of group you're involved with.  We won't tell you how to vote, but we will share with you the facts of the Marion County Transit Plan. 
  • Leave a voicemail and we'll get back to you: 317-327-8601
The November 8 ballot question on transit is advisory. If the measure passes, the Indianapolis City-County Council will decide whether to enable the transit tax and at what rate (between 0.1% and 0.25%). The Marion County Transit Plan as proposed assumes a 0.25% income tax rate.

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