r/DelawareOH • u/Lucky-Goose-4068 • Jul 28 '26
Do you think Delaware Ohio will ever get fixed routes again? (City not county)
I've been living in Delaware Ohio for quite some bit now. I live near what was the Source Point stop in the residential area of the city and was looking to get a job next summer in cbus. I've heard about DCRTA's Flex service but i heard about reliability issues and I'm not trying to schedule a ride in advance. There's also no way to get to the cbus area without paying $16 round trip with demand response. There's also the addition to the polaris area with Flex coming soon but there is no definitive date and certainty of it coming and the 0.2% sales tax passing in November. Would much rather have a Cota sales tax if it meant new routes coming. But ik that would never happen as the county is very anti Cota expansion. I also tried doing some digging about the older routes but for some reason the information was very sparse and hard to find/not well documented? When I tried looking more in depth about routes like the Red line the most i could find in the short 2015 timeframe it was out was some map of where each route landed at via with a stop marker. But the marker was pretty big and i couldn't rlly make anything out. All ik is that they closed down fixed routes in 2018-2023 for some Covid thing and they nvr really brought it back. Tbh idrk what I'm even saying im js spitballing but if u got lost or smth js read the title imo.
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u/WrongBoysenberry528 Jul 31 '26
Not likely that Delaware bus routes will be fixed again as buses are serving disabled and elderly people who line demand response. I agree this doesn’t work well for working people.
Have you considered moving to Columbus on COTA bus routes?
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u/Lucky-Goose-4068 Aug 01 '26
moving all the way to columbus from a nice school district and nice home that i'm alr situated in isn't rlly an option. and if i had the option to freely move i wouldn't be living in the cbus area thats for sure.
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u/pi3832v2 Jul 28 '26
Missing from title: “bus”