About Us

About Us

Founded in 1974, after purchasing the privately-owned Louisville Transit Company, the Transit Authority of River City (TARC) is the only public transit system in the Louisville-Southern Indiana metro area. With a fleet of over 220 buses, 33 which are hybrid-electric and 15 that are all-electric, an average 4.8 million individuals ride TARC annually with buses traveling 6.57 million miles a year. Additionally, TARC’s ADA paratransit services performs an average of 312,000 trips this past year.

Union Station
TARC Headquarters, Union Station, 1000 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky.

Pop-up red box that reads "TARC proposes service reductions to take effect January 26, 2025"