Metro Airport
For far too long, Metro Detroit residents have been subject to poor public transportation offerings, and that includes the lack of options for rides to Metro Airport.
The Regional Transit Authority announce il soliciting proposals for shuttle service between downtown Detroit and Metro Airport, Leonard Fleming of the Detroit News reports. The service could begin next spring.
Other cities like Washington have affordable shuttles like the SuperShuttle.
The service, which RTA officials estimate may cost $6.5 million, would be subsidized with various grants when it starts. If it is successful, the cost would be folded into the tax increase the authority is seeking in the November 2016 election, when voters are being asked to fund the RTA and other transit projects.
Specific fares and pickup and drop-off points have not yet been determined, RTA officials said.
“It’s just something that’s long overdue,” said RTA CEO Michael Ford, who helped create the Michigan Flyer airport shuttle service when he was the head of the Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority. “Obviously, as my experience in Ann Arbor has indicated, the service is something that continues to grow. I think it will have that same effect for the city of Detroit, as well as Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties.”
