INDIANA - Motorists feeling the pinch of high gas prices and those who are tired of the traffic congestion around Hendricks County may soon have a solution.

The Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority (CIRTA) is trying to reduce the amount of traffic on busy roadways by giving motorists an alternative method to get to work. CIRTA is planning a bus route from Hendricks County into downtown Indianapolis.

"It would be an express bus to get riders from point A to point B with no stops," said Ehren Bingaman with CIRTA. "It would relieve the conjestion and improve the air quality. It would take people to downtown businesses and reverse by taking people from downtown out."

CIRTA is aiming for July 1, 2009, as its target date to begin services in Hendricks County. The service is already offered in Fishers and Carmel.

The funding for the buses is 80 percent federal, with the other 20 percent matched by fare box intake or a pledge from county government. Bingaman said the fare box intake has been enough to cover the costs in Fishers and Carmel and that the service for Hendricks County should be parallel to that.

Bingaman, who is familiar with the traffic from Avon to Indianapolis, says he thinks that the buses will be a success.