Effective Nov 15, DART  has transitioned Ankeny’s On Call service to DART On Demand, a new pilot project featuring on-demand service.

Riders can now apply for temporary Half Fare ID cards with DART Customer Service. Learn if you qualify.

DART will offer free rides all day long on its Local Routes, Express Routes and On Call services. Free rides will be offered to and from polling locations on DART Paratransit for riders who reserve them.

DART wants to hear your thoughts on its draft vision for the future of transit for central Iowa. Learn more, attend a meeting and provide your feedback.

Discover how easy (and quick) it is to Bike & Ride! DART has bike racks on every bus, and during the month of September, you can ride free when you board with a bike.

DART is providing late-night service on Route 15 to take you to and from the Riverview Music Festival. The festival is Saturday, September 4, 2021, and buses will run at an increased frequency, every 15 minutes.

Stop by the MidAmerican Energy Building at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, August 20 to learn more about Iowa’s first electric buses. Fairgoers can tour the bus, participate in bus themed coloring activities and get a mini replica bus (while supplies last).

Riders will notice that DART made some minor changes to its website to update its web platform and improve the ease of use of the site. The changes DART made that will impact riders are described below.

New Menu

DART updated its menus from “on hover” navigation to “on click” navigation. This means that riders will now need to click on the heading they want to access to view a drop-down menu of options. This change improves accessibility of the site and removes issues riders were having accessing pages and links under the menus.

The Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC) Mobile Food Pantry is on-site at DART Central Station every Thursday and is accessible by transit at Merle Hay Mall on Tuesdays.

DART is creating a new long-term transit plan that will determine how its service can adapt to meet the evolving transportation needs in central Iowa. We recognize that even though we have been piloting new services to improve access and the overall experience using public transit, there are still transportation gaps and challenges keeping people from getting where they want, and need, to be. As part of these efforts, DART collected a first round of feedback from central Iowans in April 2021.