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2021–NOVEMBER 2026 · DATED TO THE BUILD MONTH
The current network plan: Transpo, with the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) and the Interurban Trolley, ran a comprehensive operational analysis that produced the CONNECT Transit Plan — dated 2021–2023 on Transpo's own plan page, with the plan's recommendations record dating the process launch to Fall 2022; both datings are printed as given. The Final Recommendations were published in March 2023 and adopted by the Transpo and MACOG boards in March and April 2023; the plan was led by Jarrett Walker + Associates after nearly two years of research and public engagement (Transpo release, 16 April 2025). It has two tiers: a Short-Term Network designed to be budget-neutral, and an Additional Funding Network inside a longer-range ten-year plan that requires money the corporation does not have.
The redesign, and then the cuts — the latest state of the network, dated: the CONNECT short-term network was implemented on Monday, 2 June 2025, with a new system map of that date; its signature change closed a ninety-year circle when Route 9 was replaced by Route 30, a through route giving a one-seat ride between downtown South Bend and downtown Elkhart by way of Mishawaka, jointly worked by Transpo and the Interurban Trolley (ChicagoRailFan route record; Transpo system map, 2 June 2025). Fifteen months later the funding tier failed instead: on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, Transpo implemented route and schedule modifications across fifteen routes, approved by its Board of Directors on 23 June 2026 after passenger feedback, expressly "as Transpo responds to funding challenges resulting from recent state legislation" — Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1, the 2025 property-tax law — "reductions in funding, along with rising operating costs" (Transpo, Route Changes Effective Tuesday, 9/8/26). The Tribune's account of the same changes (2 September 2026) names the cuts at route size: Routes 14 and 15 no longer run; Route 1 now ends its line at 12th Street and Merrifield; Route 13 was rerouted by Grape Road through Hickory Road to replace Route 15 entirely; General Manager and CEO Chris Kubaszak put the expected saving at $400,000 to $600,000 in the first year with no layoffs, and fares were free from 8 to 12 September 2026 while riders learned the new network. That September 2026 network — post-redesign, post-cuts — is the present state of the system as of this build month, November 2026, and it supersedes any earlier route description wherever the two differ; the Granger fringe routes in the transit test (7, 15A, 15B at University Park Mall) are subject to it, and Route 15's elimination touches the mall fringe the test describes.
The for-hire trade, at survey size to close the leg: no taxi company is based in the unincorporated CDP, and none could be licensed there — taxi licensing on this ground is a city act. The airport's ground-transportation record states the licensing frame exactly: all taxis serving South Bend International Airport "are licensed and authorized by the City of South Bend, and approved by the St. Joseph County Airport Authority to operate on airport property," with Eagle Cab and United Cab the companies permitted to work the airport rank, and the locally owned Rides2u authorized as an additional rideshare service. United Cab, at 2107 South Michigan Street, South Bend, is the trade's senior survivor on its own telling — "serving South Bend and the Michiana region since 2006," commercially insured, its drivers licensed, and its stated service area expressly including Granger, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen and Niles; Yellow Cab of Michiana (1814 South Main Street) and Blue Ribbon Taxi ND work the same ground, and the app rideshares operate alongside them. For-hire service reaches the CDP the way the bus does — from a city base, on call, never from a Granger rank — and with that survey the leg is closed.