avenue 1 locale hammond indiana service type fixed route demand response 1 routes 5 all routes discontinued as of june 30 2012 fleet 10 vehicles 1 annual ridership 290 536 27.95 % 1 fuel type diesel 1 operator northwest indiana regional bus authority as of january 1 2010 chief executive keith e. matosovsky director 1 website official site this article needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . august 2014 hammond transit system is the provider of bus service in the chicago suburb of hammond indiana . it features four local intra city routes and one route that provides access to neighboring whiting and chicago s east side neighborhood . the system was established in 1976 as replacement for the discontinued bus service provided by chicago & calumet district transit co. the service was a division of the hammond city government . 2 as of january 1 2010 the system is operated by the northwest indiana regional bus authority . hammond transit center acts as a transit hub linking together all system routes as well as pace suburban bus system east chicago transit and gary public transportation corporation bus routes . the hammond transit system and the easygo bus system discontinued all service as of june 30 2012 . 3 4 5 contents 1 history 1.1 hammond transit system and merger negotiations 1.2 rba assumes control 1.3 northwest lake county transit services 2 hammond transit bus routes 3 easygo lake transit service routes 4 references 5 external links history edit hammond transit system and merger negotiations edit in january 2009 hammond officials announced that the hammond transit system would be shut down on july 1 2009 due to the lack of funds . in february thomas mcdermott jr mayor of hammond decided to postpone the shutdown until the end of the year in hopes that a funding solution will materialize . 6 in effort to save money the saturday service was eliminated and the service frequency on all routes was decreased to one bus per hour in some routes 75 minutes . in august 2009 the city of hammond and northwest indiana s regional bus authority met to discuss the system s future . they eventually came up with an agreement . under its provisions rba assumed control of hammond transit system on january 1 2010 . the city of hammond pledged to provide a portion of the funding for the next two years . the rest is paid by rba a grant from northwest indiana regional development authority as well as a variety of state and federal funds . rba assumes control edit pace system bus at dan rabin transit plaza when rba assumed control of hammond transit system it rebranded the buses replacing hammond transit system labels with easygo stickers . the system stop signage and system maps retained the original name . while the routes and schedules remain the same for the time being rba is looking to make a number of service changes to make the system more efficient and allow for better connections with pace east chicago transit and gptc . the tentative plans for creation of two regional routes and three local ones . route 1 will be revamped as calumet regional route . with a few exceptions the route will travel along calumet avenue linking chicago s east side neighborhood the city of hammond and the town of munster . the new indianapolis regional route will largely follow indianapolis boulevard connecting chicago s east side neighborhood parts of hammond and east chicago terminating in northern highland . the revamped local routes were not finalized until april 2010 . rba announced its intention to increase service on regional routes during morning and evening rush hours running the buses once every half an hour . between january and march 2010 rba solicited comments and suggestions from the public about what kind of changes it should make . 7 in the end of april 2010 rba approved the changes . while the public comments resulted in a few alternation most of the changes are broadly similar to what was originally proposed . 8 the route changes were originally slated to take effect on july 2010 but they were postponed until august 2010 to give riders more time to familiarize themselves with the new schedule . northwest lake county transit services edit on june 28 2010 rba executive director tim brown explained the changes in detail expanding on some of the earlier comments and adding a few details . on august 2 the service hours will change with all buses running between 6 00 am 8 00 pm every half an hour during morning and evening rush hours and every hour the rest of the day . saturday service would be restored starting august 7 with all buses running once an hour . the service would be officially renamed northwest lake county transit services but the buses will retain the recently added easygo logos and bus stops and signs will remain the same until further notice . calumet regional route and indianapolis regional route would debut as red route and green route respectively . two local routes orange route and blue route would be operate as fixed bi directional loops covering some of the destinations previously covered by routes 1 3 4 and 5 . the rush hour bus will run between dan rabin transit plaza and lake county government complex in crown point with inbound buses departing in the morning and outbound buses departing in the evening . 9 hammond transit bus routes edit route 1 downtown to chicago east side route 2 downtown to hessville route 3 downtown to south hammond route 4 downtown to woodmar route 5 downtown to columbia plaza easygo lake transit service routes edit red route chicago east side to northern dyer green route chicago east side to highland blue route downtown hammond to hessville orange route downtown hammond to marktown east chicago brown route munster community hospital to lake county government center brown route is no longer in service check http www.rba nwi.org maps.cfm for current routes . references edit a b c d e f 2008 indiana public transit annual report pg 67 68 http web.me.com willvdv chirailfan histihmd.html http www.rba nwi.org cfid 3202986 & cftoken 56745945 http abclocal.go.com wls story section news local indiana & id 8719747 http stevebwalsh.wordpress.com 2012 06 28 shutdown of the rba live from the dan rabin transit 6 28 12 http www.rba nwi.org newsletters files rbaconnections04 09.pdf http www.gohammond.com web aid 1211 . phtml http www.nwitimes.com news local lake article e1cf0cf5 7868 5c84 9138 f4296f4c3358.html http www.nwitimes.com article 7b33cf07 af22 56a2 a72f 6f0fff893a14.html external links edit hammond transit system s official website hammond transit system information at rba s official website rba s hammond transit system revamp proposals v t e public transportation in northern indiana passenger rail amtrak wolverine cardinal lake shore limited capitol limited commuter rail south shore line urban bus systems east chicago transit fort wayne citilink gary public 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