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Evansville board approves new METS bus stop near women's rescue center
Summary
The Board of Public Safety approved a request from the Metropolitan Evansville Transit System to add a bus stop on Professional Boulevard across from a new rescue mission center for women and children.
The Evansville Board of Public Safety voted to approve a new bus stop on Professional Boulevard after a request from the Metropolitan Evansville Transit System on Aug. 13.
Jonathan Sibi King, director of the Metropolitan Evansville Transit System, told the board the agency sought permission “to put a new bus stop sign on Professional Boulevard across from the, the new women's shelter,” and presented photographs of the proposed location and nearby stops. The request, which the board discussed briefly, was presented as intended to serve the rescue mission center for women and children that sits across the street.
The board chair moved to accept the proposal and a second was recorded; the motion passed with affirmative votes. No ordinance or additional funding for the sign was mentioned during the discussion.
Board members said they had driven the area and that the proposed location “makes a lot of sense.” No public opposition or formal conditions were recorded in the transcript. The board did not set a follow-up deadline or require additional staff reports; the action recorded in the minutes was approval of the stop installation as requested.
The decision addresses access along Professional Boulevard near social services facilities and will place the stop across from the new Rescue Mission Center for women and children. Further operational details, including an installation date, were not specified in the discussion recorded in the meeting minutes.
