Lakeville Public Transit

Transpo's riders and fares, printed

2010–2025 · the published record of the system that does not reach here

The banked transit article crawled the network and found no route to Lakeville; this prints the system's own published size. The South Bend Public Transportation Corporation (Transpo) publishes its record through the federal and state transit reports: a base fare of $1.00, with reduced fares, its most recent fare increase dated 5 April 2010; annual ridership of 1,279,200 in 2025, running about 4,500 riders per weekday (APTA Transit Ridership Report, Q4 2025); and, in INDOT's 2023 Indiana Public Transit Annual Report, a service area defined as the South Bend and Mishawaka city limits with a service population of 165,000. The Federal Transit Administration's National Transit Database carries the agency's profile on the same terms. None of it reaches south of the city: the published record confirms at system strength what the banked crawl found at route strength — Lakeville, some eight miles south of the southernmost route ends, is outside the service area the system's own reports draw.

Principal sources: APTA Transit Ridership Report, Q4 2025; INDOT, Indiana Public Transit Annual Report 2023; FTA National Transit Database agency profile, South Bend Public Transportation Corporation (all first-hand at published-record strength).

The residue surveyed: paratransit, intercounty links, vanpool, and the for-hire trade

The survey · what has ever served Lakeville and Union Township, at the record's strength

Below the fixed routes there is a second transit world — and it stops, every layer of it, short of this township. Paratransit. Transpo Access, the system's ADA complementary paratransit, serves eligible riders with disabilities within three-quarters of a mile of its fixed routes, at a fare of $2.00 — twice the fixed-route fare, as the ADA allows — with eligibility determined on application (Transpo's own Access page, first-hand). A corridor drawn three-quarters of a mile around routes that end in South Bend cannot reach a town eight miles south, and does not. MACOG's Interurban Trolley runs the same pattern one county east: five routes in Elkhart and Goshen reaching Osceola, Dunlap and Mishawaka, its Access paratransit covering a mile and a half either side of its routes — Elkhart County ground, lapping into Mishawaka, never into Union Township. Intercounty links. Transpo and the Interurban Trolley jointly operate Route 30, South Bend–Elkhart; Niles Dial-A-Ride, from Michigan, connects into Transpo's Route 5 at the state line — the region's one cross-state dial-a-ride link, and it touches South Bend's north side, the far end of the county from Lakeville.

The county-whole programmes are two, and neither is a bus. MACOG and Commute with Enterprise provide vanpool options in Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties — commuter vanpools, employer-oriented, the one regional programme whose stated geography includes this county whole, Lakeville included, for riders whose trip is a commute a vanpool happens to serve. And REAL Services, the Area 2 Agency on Aging, provides transportation for older adults across its counties — to doctors, grocery stores, banks and other necessary appointments (its own referral record, first-hand) — the senior-ride layer that in practice reaches rural addresses the buses never have. REAL Services' own 2025 planning materials state the limit plainly: rural transportation programmes are small relative to need, and public transportation gaps persist. The planning record says the same. MACOG's Regional Mobility Plan — the Coordinated Public Transit–Human Services Transportation Plan approved by the MACOG Policy Board in August 2024 — inventories the public, private and non-profit providers of Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph Counties (its Appendix A is the provider inventory of record) and identifies the gaps; communities outside the urbanised areas are pointed to INDOT's Statewide Call for Projects. The CONNECT Transit Plan (MACOG and Transpo, 2021–2023) studied only South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart and Goshen.

The for-hire trade, tested: no taxi, livery or dial-a-ride firm based in Lakeville or Union Township appears in the Mobility Plan's inventory framework or in any directory or press carrier searched; the for-hire layer that reaches the township is the South Bend-based non-emergency medical and senior-ride market, at commercial-directory strength. The survey's whole result therefore prints as a layered negative: no scheduled, paratransit, dial-a-ride or for-hire service based in or routed to Lakeville or Union Township has ever been documented in any carrier searched; what serves the township's residents is a county-whole vanpool programme, a county-whole senior-ride programme, and whatever a South Bend for-hire car will drive south for. The named gap stands where the record leaves it: the township has no transit provider of its own, and the Mobility Plan's provider inventory (Appendix A) is the settler of record for any provider this survey's frame missed.

Principal sources: Transpo, Access paratransit page (sbtranspo.com, first-hand); MACOG, transit page and Regional Mobility Plan (2024) (first-hand); REAL Services client referral record (first-hand) and 2025 annual-plan presentation (first-hand); CONNECT Transit Plan (first-hand).

The Marlette test, closed by cross-reference

Pointer · the read lives in Lane C's addendum

The 1904 proposal test is complete, and this branch does not re-run it.122–131) contains no proposal routed via Lakeville, Union Township, or the Michigan Road axis and no McCullough entry, and the names "Lakeville," "McCullough," "North Liberty" and "Walkerton" appear nowhere in the book. The read's home is Lane C's addendum, this history, article lk-digc-l30-marlette-read, which also carries the traction-company grading south of the city (South Bend and Logansport Traction Co., Plymouth–South Bend, abandoned June 1911, alignment unstated) and the South Shore succession in brief. This branch prints the completed test at pointer strength and claims no second read.

Principal sources: DIG-LK-C addendum this history, article lk-digc-l30-marlette-read (cross-reference, by the wave's order; the chapter was not re-read for this lane).