A public hearing will be held on April 13 to gather public input on DART’s application for state and federal transit funding for FY2027.
Transit Funding Application Public Hearing
April 13 at 8 a.m.
DART Central Station
Multimodal Room (2nd floor)
620 Cherry St., Des Moines, IA 50309
The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) today announced that Chief Executive Officer Amanda Wanke has accepted a leadership position with Metro Transit in the Twin Cities. Her final day with DART will be May 9, 2026.
DART will end all services in the City of Bondurant and City of Pleasant Hill beginning June 14, 2026, aligning with the start of our new bus network. We are making this change because both cities voted to withdraw from DART.
As of June 14, we will no longer provide these services in Bondurant and Pleasant Hill:
The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) has received a $20 million federal grant for constructing a new Operations & Maintenance Facility. With a 2019 grant and local match funding, this new grant will allow DART to make significant progress on the goal of getting out of 1100 DART Way.
Current and former DART employees who did not agree to receive an ACA 1095-C Form electronically may request that a copy of the form be mailed to them. Requests can be made by:
Please confirm your mailing address in the request. You will receive the form in the mail within 30 days of the request.
Today, the DART Commission approved the first major redesign of bus routes and services in more than a decade. DART’s new network will increase transit access and speed up travel times for most transit trips while reducing service by 10% to limit property tax growth.
DART will install 10 new bus shelters after the DART Commission approved a contract for the work at its November 4 meeting. Work on the shelters will be completed this winter as weather permits.
Throughout 2025, DART has worked with its member communities and riders to reimagine the bus routes and services DART should deliver. DART received multiple rounds of public feedback before developing a final bus network plan this fall. DART's governing board, the DART Commission, is preparing to adopt the final bus network in December.
Click here to view the final map, learn about changes DART made this fall, see turn-by-turn directions and bus stop locations, and leave a comment.
The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) provided 3,753,065 rides across all transit services in Fiscal Year 2025 (July 2024 – June 2025), an increase of nearly 7% from the previous year.
About 95% of DART’s ridership is on its fixed bus routes, which increased slightly more than 7% to 3,579,974 rides last year. DART carried an average of 17.6 passengers per hour of service on its fixed bus routes, making it the most efficient of DART’s services.
DART will not have bus service and DART Central Station will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2025.
Bus service will operate normally on the weekend after the holiday. More information about DART’s holiday service is available at ridedart.com/holiday.