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(Des Moines, IA) -- The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority is rolling out multiple changes to routes in the metro. It's one of three or four service changes they make in a year.
Erin Hockman is the Chief Strategy Officer at DART.
"We're regularly monitoring how the service on the road is performing," Hockman says. "Is it running on time? Are the operators running into issues being able to make turns or anything like that?"
This time around DART is making changes to five routes, including the cancellation of the D-Line downtown shuttle service.
"We were just seeing that while ridership across the rest of the DART system has increased consecutively the last several years, the ridership on that route was not recovering following the pandemic," Hockman says.
When route cancellation happens, funds are generally shifted. But some of the D-Line funding will go away.
"We actually were able to fund that route through some external funding from external partners," Hockman says. "And some of that funding is just going away."
The full list of changes can be found here.