Transit Authority of River City
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TARC 2013 Gillig BRT
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| Founded | 1974 |
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| Locale | Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Service area | Louisville Metro |
| Service type | Bus service |
| Routes | 40 |
| Fleet | 225 |
| Fuel type | ULSD |
| Website | www |
The Transit Authority of River City (TARC) is the major public transportation provider for the Louisville, Kentucky, United States metro area, which includes parts of Southern Indiana. This includes the Kentucky suburbs of Oldham County, Bullitt County, Clark County, and Floyd County in southern Indiana. TARC is publicly funded and absorbed various earlier private mass transit companies in Louisville, the largest of which was the Louisville Transit Company.
TARC operates a fleet of 225 accessible buses, including numerous hybrids. Starting in 2004, TARC purchased hybrids, and by 2008 started purchasing clean diesel buses for a cleaner, greener fleet. By late Winter 2013, TARC added 16 more clean diesels. Then, by mid-Summer 2013, 11 hybrids were added, bringing TARC's hybrid total to 32. By Fall 2013, TARC added 21 clean diesel commuter buses, then as of Fall 2014 TARC added 12 more clean diesels; some of them are WiFi-enabled and have comfortable seating. TARC has recently put 12 additional updated buses on the road with 13 more due to arrive by late 2016. This brings their clean diesel total to 82 when the other 13 arrive. There will be 96. All-electric buses have been circulating downtown Louisville since early 2015, and eight more will be hitting the road on one local route serving the Iroquois neighborhood, and Iroquois Park. These buses will not be fare-free, will have a 42-passenger capacity, and will share the 8th Street charging station with one of the trolley routes. according to The Courier-Journal. There are also two charging stations in downtown Louisville, one at 3rd and York, the other at 8th and Market. These buses will have a 30-passenger seating capacity, and be able to operate for up to two hours on a single charge. These buses, like the old trolleys, will be fare-free.
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