Every Metro Bus Route Just Changed

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If you ride the bus — or know someone who does — yesterday redrew the map. DART retired every one of its old local routes Sunday and replaced them with 11 new ones, and for the next two weeks, nobody pays a dime. Welcome to the biggest change to metro transit in years. Let's roll. 🚲

It happened overnight. As of Sunday, every old DART route is gone, replaced by 11 redesigned routes built to run more often, all day, seven days a week, along the metro's busiest corridors. Four of those corridors now get a bus every 15 minutes. Stops are spaced farther apart — roughly every three to four blocks — a deliberate trade: fewer stops, faster and more reliable trips.

The payoff DART is selling: about 22,000 more residents will have access to transit, and the average metro resident can now reach thousands more jobs within a 45-minute weekday ride.

Here's the part to act on. Every ride is free June 14–30 while people learn the new system; regular fares return July 1. (The free window covers fixed routes — DART On Demand and Paratransit aren't included.) If you or someone in your house relies on the bus, don't guess at your new route: DART's "Learn My Route" tool maps your old trip to the new one.

The catch worth knowing: with stops thinned out and routes redrawn, some riders will walk a little farther or transfer differently than they did Friday. Two free weeks is the window to figure that out before it costs you.

📍 Source: DART — new network & free rides · Iowa Public Radio — fewer routes, more frequent stops

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🏛️ City Council is back tonight. After two weeks off, the council holds its first regular meeting since June 1 — 5:30 p.m. at the Kirkendall Public Library council chambers (1250 SW District Dr.), open to the public. We'll have the recap in your inbox tomorrow morning. City of Ankeny

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The metro's bus map got rebuilt from scratch overnight — 11 new routes, free to ride through June 30. If you ride, learn your new route now while it's free; if you don't, today's a sunny 78° and the council gavels back in at 5:30.

Tomorrow: we recap tonight's City Council meeting — the first since the June 1 session that borrowed $26 million and rewrote three ordinances.

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