Battery-electric bus at the downtown transit center on Jan. 13, 2023.

Bloomington Transit board member Doug Horn.

Bloomington Transit board chair James McClary.

Month over month ridership charts.

Map extracted from strategic plan.

The image is from the Monroe County online property lookup system.

Bloomington Transit board meeting (Jan. 17, 2023).

The big news out of Bloomington Transit’s (BT’s) regular board meeting on Tuesday was the unanimous adoption of a strategic plan.

It was developed with help from consultant Foursquare ITP, under a $100,000 contract.

An item on Tuesday’s agenda with a much bigger price tag was the $7.9 million approval of a purchase order with Gillig Corporation for eight battery-electric buses.

But the electric bus purchase order intersects with at least two of the four initiatives that are listed out in the strategic plan: partnerships and engagement (Initiative 1); and modernization of operations (Initiative 2). Continue reading “Strategic plan for Bloomington Transit calls for collaboration, extending service beyond city limits” →