April’s Meeting is: Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at 8:30am The public is welcome to attend our Board Meetings. Our board meetings are held on the first business week of the month on that Thursday. The meetings are always at 8:30am in the MITS Board Room at: 1300 E Seymour Street Muncie, IN 47302 Future dates:…
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Route 7 Returns Normal Route
The East Jackson St. bridge is no longer under construction. Route #7 on East Jackson will continue on its normal route. We will let you know if there are any future detours along this route. Thank you for your understanding.
New Grocery Carts for Use on MITS
Perhaps the most annoying part of carrying your shopping home on the bus is holding onto all of your grocery bags. Thanks to Edible Muncie, MITS riders can now rent grocery carts and insulated bags to take their groceries home. Carts are on loan at four locations: YWCA, Southern Pines, Gillespie Towers and Earthstone Terrace.…
Ride MITS to #MuncieOut Game
Celebrate #MuncieOut and show your Cardinal spirit! Ball State Men’s Basketball will face Western Michigan at 9 PM this Friday, February 23, for the annual #ChirpChirpFriday game. Before the game, the red Cardinals/Payless MITS shuttle will stop at popular Muncie dining locations to pick up patrons on the way to Worthen Arena. Approximately 15 minutes…
March Board Meeting
March’s Meeting is: Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 8:30am The public is welcome to attend our Board Meetings. Our board meetings are held on the first business week of the month on that Thursday. The meetings are always at 8:30am in the MITS Board Room at: 1300 E Seymour Street Muncie, IN 47302 Future dates:…
Employee Highlight: Erbie Bertram
As the union president for MITS employees and a driver of the MITS Plus buses, Erbie Bertram works to ensure that both the union and MITS provide great public transportation to the Muncie community. Erbie describes his job as the union president to be, “like an attorney representing a client.” Specifically, in this job, Erbie…
What is a Transportation Supervisor?
The MITS fixed-route transportation supervisor’s job is to ensure that MITS is providing the people of Muncie with a reliable public transportation system, and they do everything they can to make it so. Working with drivers, redoing old routes and managing the transportation section of the website are just a few examples. The transportation team…
Buley and BGC Merging Programs (Nov. 2017)
The Muncie area Boys and Girls Club and the Rocy C. Buley Community Center are in the process of merging their two programs. Around four years ago a partnership was formed between the Buley Center, Motivate our Minds, the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club (BGC), and a few other organizations. According to Quiana O’Neal,…
Employee Spotlight: Larry King
Larry King has been involved in MITS since the very beginning, even before there was a MITS. Prior to MITS, Southeastern Trailways was subsidized by the city to provide public transportation. In 1980, Mayor Alan Wilson, decided that continuing the subsidy arrangement was not a sound financial situation and created MITS. Later that year the…
Route 3 & Route 7 Changes
MITS Route #3 changes beginning Wednesday, February 14, 2018. The Northwest Plaza bus will begin going through the Payless parking lot from Wheeling to Rosewood to McGalliard to the regular route. This is an ongoing change to the route. MITS Route #7 detour beginning Thursday, February 15, 2018. The East Jackson St. bridge will…