City plans to create an express shuttle from downtown Detroit to DTW airport

(WXYZ) — When you’ve been driving your self to the airport, there quickly could also be one other choice to get you there. New funding in place is making a transit line from downtown Detroit to the airport a chance.

“I believe it’s a fantastic concept,” Detroit resident Renee Richardson mentioned.

She says it is a transit line she and a number of others dwelling within the space would take.

“Any sort of transit system, something that may join can be great for the town,” Detroit resident Byron Dorsey provides.

Based on Concord Lloyd, the chief working officer for the regional transit authority of Southeast Michigan, the transit line will look extra bus or shuttle.

“It is a nice step in growing public transportation choices,” she mentioned.

And he or she says they plan on making the route an specific one.

“No stops alongside the way in which, straight to the airport,” Lloyd mentioned. “That’s what we’re leaning in direction of.”

Planning nonetheless must be finished for the transit line however the metropolis hopes to have the bus up and operating by both late 2023 or early 2024.

The route is being made attainable via a $2 million grant below the infrastructure regulation.