198 [S3E45]: New Services Galore from Bloomington Transit

05/16/25 • 33 min

There's bus service to Ivy Tech and Cook at long last. A dozen new fully-electric buses in the fleet. And, this summer at long last, the first experiments with a free downtown circulator. John Connell, General Manager, returns for a 2025 update with Shelley Strimaitis, BT's Planning & Special Projects Manager, to discuss many improvements coming or already implemented: the new #13 route, the new downtown shuttle-bus route, an update on the Green Line (the name of BT's "bus rapid transit" initiative), and more.

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197 [S3E44]: Comparing "College Metro" Notes with West Lafayette City Councilmember David Sanders

We talk shop with our counterpart in the state’s other major college-dominated metropolitan area. The city of West Lafayette, the home of Purdue University, only became a second-class city like Lafayette and Bloomington in 2013, with a mayor and a nine-member council. Now a city of 45,000, it's experienced 50% growth in a decade, thanks to pressure from a growing Purdue student body attracted by a tuition rate frozen since cityhood. David Sanders is a councilmember at large in West Lafayette. We talk with him about housing, relations with Purdue, and the state water grab that almost drained the Wabash river.

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199 [S3E46] Councilmember Sydney Zulich (D-6) on Ongoing Improvements to Downtown Bloomington

City councilmember Sydney Zulich (D-6) returns to the show to talk about:

downtown beautification, including planters and the new art going up at last on traffic control boxes;
some of the logic behind this year's Kirkwood closures;
Bloomington Transit's summer experiment with a new downtown shuttle; and
the breaking of ground on the convention center expansion.

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