Effective Immediately 4/17/20:
Rural Transit will be taking calls and appointment’s for prescription and grocery deliveries in all four service counties: Monroe, Owen, Putnam and Lawrence countries. These are no-person trips to coordinate getting necessary supplies to home-bound individuals. Reminder, for Monroe County, these deliveries can not be city to city within the Bloomington boundaries. Rural Transit will not charge the individual for this service. Certainly donations will be accepted and encouraged. To schedule this service, individual’s must call their county’s Rural Transit office. (see below)
Effective Thursday April 17th, Rural Transit’s Owen County Connector route is suspended. Individuals who may need transportation due to this alteration should call Rural Transit at 812-876-1079 to schedule door to door transportation. Thank you.
Rural Transit
A service of Area 10 Agency on Aging, Rural Transit is for everyone. Rural Transit offers bus service in Lawrence, Monroe, Owen and Putnam counties, and anyone can ride regardless of age or disability. Children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
Services offered include:
Scheduled Routes: We have routes operating throughout Monroe & Owen Counties. For detailed destination & departure locations/times, please refer to the schedules posted here on our web page.
Door-to-Door Transportation: Do you need to go shopping or perhaps make a trip to see your doctor? Rural Transit offers door-to-door transportation with ADA compliant wheelchair lifts available on request.
To make a reservation for door-to-door transportation, please call our office as far in advance as possible. Please keep in mind that availability is limited and we will do our best to accommodate all requests.
Rural Transit
Monroe: (812) 876-1079
Owen: (812) 829-6066
Putnam: (765) 848-1508
Lawrence: (812) 876-1079
Express Routes:
Spencer/Ellettsville going to/from Kinser Pike Bus stop BT Route 1 North Connection
Effective Thursday April 17th, Rural Transit’s Owen County Connector route is suspended. Individuals who may need transportation due to this alteration should call Rural Transit at 812-876-1079 to schedule door to door transportation. Thank you.
The below Connector route will no longer be in service as of January 29th, 2021. Please call office at 812-876-1079 for further details.
Ivy Tech going to/from Whitehall Plaza Bus stop BT Route 3 West Connection. On Fridays, last transport from Ivy Tech is 5:35 pm.
Beginning August 24th Rural Transit will begin servicing Ivy Tech/Park 48 thru Whitehall Plaza Connector Routes.
Additional Ellettsville Connection see below
Ellettsville Connection 812-876-1079
Colonial Apartments to Whitehall Plaza
6:30am
9:30am
12:30pm
FREE TRANSFER TO BT 3 EAST
any persons needing to return to Ellettsville, would need to board BT 3 West to connect to Whitehall Plaza at 4:00pm
