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Muskegon Area Transit System to run weekend beach shuttle; bus shelter planned on Baker Street
Summary
Muskegon Area Transit System told the Muskegon County Transportation Committee it will operate a Friday–Sunday summer beach shuttle and is advancing plans for a bus shelter on Baker Street in Muskegon Heights; the city will help market the service.
Jim Cummings, a representative of the Muskegon Area Transit System (MATS), told the Muskegon County Board Transportation Committee that MATS will begin operating a beach shuttle this week and is working on a bus shelter in Muskegon Heights.
The shuttle will run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through the summer and will operate along the beach corridor from Cruising Park to Harbor Town Beach, Cummings said. “We will be the beach shuttle — the tan line on the app,” he said, adding that another service will appear as a blue line. The service is intended to give people an alternative to parking near the beach and to connect city parks and lots to the central beach.
Committee members were told the shuttle will also link to in-town stops that include Campbell Field, the Morris Street downtown lot and the city park on Wood Street, allowing residents in other neighborhoods to reach the beach without driving. Cummings said parking passes remain required for some beach lots: “Both all of those areas still require the parking passes,” he said.
Cummings said MATS has prepared marketing materials and that the City of Muskegon asked to lead some promotion so both the city’s page and MATS’s website will carry information. “Those are being finalized and should be out in the next week,” he said.
On shelters, Cummings said staff have reached an “agreement in principle” this morning to begin work on legal documents for a bus shelter on Baker Street in Muskegon Heights and that the matter will likely return to the committee for a formal agreement. “We can start moving forward with some legal documents and things that may need [to be done],” he said.
Commissioner Page asked for the shelter’s location; Cummings described it as Baker Street “between Center and Mannequin” and noted it is near Broadway. No formal vote or funding action on the shelter was taken at the meeting.
Committee members did not request additional staff direction; Cummings said the city will help promote the shuttle and MATS will continue working on the shelter paperwork.
