Transit Authority of River City (TARC)

"The bus'll bring you here, you can get off at the Nia Center, come straight over here" - West End resident and TARC user. TARC is pleased to be able to serve the new Norton West Louisville Hospital in the West End. Now you can take the #19 Muhammad Ali, #21 Chestnut Street, #25 Oak-Westport Connection, or any branch of the #23 Broadway to get to medical appointments and needs. The location is already right near one of TARC's busiest and most frequent transit corridors - the West Broadway corridor. When the region puts important buildings like hospitals near existing transit service it makes it much more possible for transit agencies to provide good, reliable service to those places! Read more: https://lnkd.in/ep5_6Hp3

Last week we held a celebration for TARC team members who have at least one year of safe work. Pictured here are just a few of the over 230 Coach Operators and Mechanics who keep us all safe every day. Congratulations to all!

Effective January 26, 2025, TARC plans to implement a series of service reductions and service changes. These service changes include three route discontinuations, route consolidations to absorb coverage of discontinued routes, two routing reductions, and frequency reductions on two additional routes. Learn more about why we're making these changes, and see route-by-route information on our website: https://lnkd.in/es9V4RBk

🗳 Bypass the fare box and take any route to reach your polling location! On Tuesday, November 5, TARC will provide fare-free service on all routes, helping passengers get to and from polling places for the General Election across the service area. This is a service TARC has provided for every general and primary election since 2020. TARC3 paratransit customers will also enjoy fare-free service on Election Day. For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/ddqqYND2

A great way to get to a Louisville favorite! Skip the traffic and parking stress and take public transit to the St. James Court Art Show this weekend through our partnership with Parking Authority of River City. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eYfncGXG

TARC's Chief Operating Officer, Rob Stephens, and Director Of Marketing & Communications, Alex Posorske, joined the September meeting of the Louisville Forum to discuss TARC 2025, and the future of public transportation in Louisville. Louisville MetroTV filmed last week's conversation: https://lnkd.in/ejQaBfMA

There is one more week to submit your feedback on the TARC 2025 concepts. Last night WDRB stopped by to talk with our Executive Director Ozzy Gibson about the project, and how you can weigh in before the survey closes: https://lnkd.in/et97JCWF

For this week’s Transit Planning Tuesday, let’s look at changes in access and proximity across the three concepts. The first chart shows how job access changes between concepts, on average, for all Jefferson County residents and for specific groups of residents. The grey bars are the jobs accessible in the Spring 2024 network, the red bars are the jobs accessible in the Ridership Concept, the blue bars are the jobs accessible in the Coverage Concept, and the green bars are the jobs accessible in the Growth Concept. The second chart shows the coverage provided by TARC services in Spring 2024, compared to the coverage provided by all three Concepts, at midday on a weekday. Each group of bars is the coverage of residents, jobs, or a particular group of residents within Jefferson County. The overall coverage is divided into coverage by transit of particular frequencies at midday. That tells us a bit more about how many people are near service that is useful. You can see a more complete version of the second chart, and learn more about the three Concepts by visiting our TARC 2025 Concepts page: https://lnkd.in/eHV-7j_p

For today’s Transit Planning Tuesday let’s take a look at the Growth Concept!   We looked at some peers for TARC and the Louisville region, and saw that where similar regions provide more transit service, they get more ridership per person. So, there is a key value question about whether the region should invest more in transit to improve access to opportunity and increase ridership. To help visualize what is possible, we’ve drawn a Growth Concept that would redesign the TARC network while adding 12% more service than was available in the Spring 2024 Network. Funding this network would require about $45 million per year in additional operating funding from the region. This concept provides both the frequency of the Ridership Concept and the additional places and neighborhoods served by the Coverage Concept. The additional service dramatically increases how many useful destinations an average resident can reach in a given amount of time, while also maintain and expanding coverage. This concept adds a stretch of frequent service along Frankfort Avenue and Market Street. Also note the cross-town connectors helping connect Bardstown Road to UofL to Algonquin Park, as well as an Outer Loop connector, and Hurstbourne Parkway connector. Learn more about the Growth Concept on our updated Concepts page: https://lnkd.in/eHV-7j_p Should the region should invest more in transit to improve access to opportunity and increase ridership? Let us know by taking our survey today: https://lnkd.in/e25unnT2

Another great week of talking with our community about TARC 2025 at over 20 different local neighborhood associations, nonprofits, employers, and more! Check out where we will be next week: https://lnkd.in/eipUTfUb