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DART will host two upcoming meetings on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, to share potential changes to our Bus Plus ADA Paratransit service. Both meetings will last approximately 90 minutes and will be held in the Multimodal Room on the second floor of DART Central Station (620 Cherry Street, Des Moines). Both meetings will contain the same information, so you are encouraged to choose one to attend. Attendees can join the meetings virtually by using the links below to access Zoom login information.

This fall, we are partnering with ETC Institute to measure customer satisfaction.

Survey for DART riders

We want to feedback from riders regarding your experience using DART and how well our service meets your needs.  Your feedback will help us make improvements and provide the best service possible.

DART will be holding a job fair at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Middway on November 2nd from 2 - 6 p.m. and November 3rd from 7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. This fair will allow potential drivers to get to handle a 40-foot-long passenger bus and smaller paratransit bus around a closed course. Job-seekers will have the opportunity to get the feel of driving a bus and connect with DART Human Resources about beginning a new career.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, the cost to ride DART On Demand is changing, and riders will have more options for how they pay their fare. When DART started service on DART On Demand in Ankeny, replacing the former On Call service for the community, a promotional price of $1 per ride was set. Now, nearly one year after beginning service, the promotional fare price is ending, and single trips on the service for full-fare riders will increase to $1.75 per ride, the same price as DART’s other Fixed Route services.

DART is asking anyone who lives or works in one of the neighborhoods in the 50314 zip code in north Des Moines to complete a survey providing feedback on transportation options in the area. The feedback will help DART identify what transportation challenges people traveling, living or working in this area have and evaluate if additional public transit solutions may improve people’s mobility.

The DART website could be inaccessible for a few minutes after 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29 because of needed maintenance to the site.

This outage will not impact real-time schedule data through the MyDART app or MyDART text or any of DART's phone lines.

Any changes to this planned outage will be shared through this webpage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our riders and thank you in advance for your patience during this short outage.

Just in time for the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, funding from a Principal Foundation grant will provide free rides to and from school for most students at North High School and Harding Middle School in the Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) District. As of Aug. 24, students at North and Harding who previously did not qualify for free DART transit to and from school will be able to use their student ID to ride DART any time of day.

As part of the Iowa Public Transit Association's (IPTA's) annual meeting and Roadeo in early July 2022, several DART Fixed Route and Paratransit Operators were recognized for their efforts. As part of the annual meeting, one DART Fixed Route Operator, Greg Bailey and one DART Paratransit Operator, Joe Vitale, were recognized as DART's Operators of the year. These employees were selected for this recognition by DART staff and were featured in a dinner during the annual meeting in Cedar Rapids.