COTA budgeting for expanded bus service next year

The Central Ohio Transit Authority will add more bus service, spend more money on its system redesign, and start building a priority bus line on Cleveland Avenue as part of a beefed up 2016 budget. COTA administrators are recommending a budget of about $183 million for next year, nearly 22 percent more than the $151 million it expects to spend by the end of 2015.