'FootballRide' To Offer Shuttle Service For All U-M Home Football Games
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) -- Are you heading to the Big House to watch Michigan at all this season? If so, make sure to use the team's new shuttle service.
With the college football season officially underway, Michigan fans can now take advantage of football shuttles the rest of the year to help get them to and from the Big House.
FootballRide, as it is now known, will operate between many hotel and parking sites, running every 20 minutes and starting two hours before the game with the last pickup 30 minutes before kick off.
Returning shuttles, meanwhile, will run for approximately one hour after each contest with tickets costing just a $1.50 for adults each way and can be purchased at most hotel sites, or in advance by mail.
Riders are also encouraged to purchase round trip tickets in advance as shuttle drivers do not carry change.
Free Parking Shuttle Locations:
Plymouth Road Park & Ride Lot (North Shuttle)
Miller Road Park and Ride Lot (West Shuttle)
Public Paid Parking Shuttle Locations (Downtown Shuttle):
Fletcher Street Parking Structure
Fourth & William Parking Structure
Pizza House on Church St. (for Forest St. & Church St. Parking Structures)
Thompson Street Parking Structure (not serviced during the 2014/2015 season due to road construction)
Hotel and Other Shuttle Locations:
(Hotel parking may be limited to hotel patrons.)
* Indicates Football Ride ticket sales locations.
North Shuttle
*Holiday Inn near the University of Michigan (parking for Guy Hollerin's restaurant & hotel guests only)
South Shuttle
*Sheraton Ann Arbor Hotel
*Hampton Inn South
*Kensington Court Ann Arbor
*Red Roof Inn
Indirect service:
*Comfort Inn & Suites and Days Inn - board at Ann Arbor Regent Hotel & Suites
*Courtyard by Marriott - board at Sheraton
*Fairfield Inn - board at Sheraton
*Holiday Inn Hotels & Suites - board at Sheraton
*Holiday Inn Express - board at Kensington Court Ann Arbor (tickets available at Kensington Court)
Downtown Shuttle
*Bell Tower Hotel
*Campus Inn
Michigan Union
East Shuttle
*Ann Arbor Regent Hotel & Suites (Carpenter Rd.)
Indirect service:
*Comfort Inn & Suites
*Days Inn
West Shuttle
*Weber's Inn (parking for Weber's patrons only)
*Clarion Hotel
During University of Michigan home football games, the following bus routes will be detoured while the streets are closed to through traffic:
- Route 6 Ellsworth
- Route 7 South Main - East
- Route 8 Pauline
- Route 15 Scio Church - W. Stadium
- Route 16 Ann Arbor - Saline
[More information can be found at MyFootballRide.org or by phone at 734-996-0400]
