Editing Lansing, Michigan (section)

===Public transportation===
* [[Capital Area Transportation Authority|Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA)]] provides [[public transit]] bus service to the Lansing-East Lansing Metropolitan area on 33 routes. CATA boasts the second highest ridership in the state of [[Michigan]] after Detroit with 53,000 daily rides in September 2008 and 11,306,339 rides in fiscal year 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cata.org/AboutCATA/NewsInfo/tabid/82/newsid948/13/mid/948/CATA-Ridership-Sets-New-Records/Default.aspx |title=CATA News & Info – About CATA – CATA – Capital Area Transportation Authority |work=cata.org |access-date=March 5, 2009 |archive-date=May 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525004248/http://www.cata.org/AboutCATA/NewsInfo/tabid/82/newsid948/13/mid/948/CATA-Ridership-Sets-New-Records/Default.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref> CATA also provides paratransit services through Spec-Tran and the "Night Owl". Also, the "Entertainment Express" (CATA route 4) runs Thursday through Saturday from 7 pm to 2 am connecting downtown Lansing's and East Lansing's entertainment districts. CATA won APTA's America's Best Transit Award in the medium-size category (4–30 million rides) in 2007. CATA has two transportation centers (CTC), one in downtown Lansing and one on the campus of Michigan State University. In 2010, a [http://www.cata.org/AboutCATA/NewsInfo/tabid/82/newsid948/76/mid/948/Does-CATA-study-point-to-Bus-Rapid-Transit-Light-Rail-or-Streetcar-/Default.aspx study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615054238/http://www.cata.org/AboutCATA/NewsInfo/tabid/82/newsid948/76/mid/948/Does-CATA-study-point-to-Bus-Rapid-Transit-Light-Rail-or-Streetcar-/Default.aspx |date=June 15, 2016 }} was conducted to consider ways of enhancing the Lansing-to-East Lansing route (currently known as Route 1), with options including enhanced bus service, single-car trolley service and light rail service. (Heavy rail was eliminated as an option early in the process, with enhanced bus service eventually winning out.)
* [[Greyhound Lines]] provides [[Intercity bus|inter-city]] [[bus]] service. CATA and Greyhound are both located in the CATA Transportation Center (CTC) in downtown Lansing.
* Several [[taxicab]] companies serve the area. In 2001, Big Daddy Taxi opened using large vans to address the safety concerns of drunk driving and offered $3 rides for students of Michigan State University. In 2008 the Green Cab Company opened using Toyota Prius hybrid cars to provide "green" cabs to Lansing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.capitalgainsmedia.com/devnews/cab0235.aspx |title=Southside Lansing Businessman Starts Green Taxi Cab Company |publisher=Capitalgainsmedia.com |date=September 10, 2008 |access-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501072448/http://www.capitalgainsmedia.com/devnews/cab0235.aspx/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Michigan Flyer]] provides bus service between Lansing and [[Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport|Detroit Metro Airport]] 12 times daily, with a stop in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] along the way.