Bexley council reviews nonbinding support for LinkUs BRT stop at Pleasant Ridge and Main

Council President Lampe introduced a nonbinding resolution at the April 8, 2025, Bexley City Council meeting to express support in concept for a LinkUs bus rapid transit stop on East Main Street west of Pleasant Ridge Avenue. She told council she had not decided how she would vote and called the measure a vehicle for further fact-finding and resident input.

The mayor and staff described LinkUs as a voter-approved regional transit program that will add bus rapid transit on East Main Street and related “transit-supported infrastructure” such as bikeways and sidewalks. Mayor Ben provided a high-level overview of the project’s design status — roughly 60% complete — and said a final design and construction agreement would come to the city later. He and staff said the proposed Pleasant Ridge station would be a median platform; the existing medians on that block measure about 8 feet and the planned BRT medians would be about 14 feet, requiring a modest roadway configuration change in that segment.

President Lampe emphasized the resolution does not reopen the voter decision that approved regional BRT: “The voters have…