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Flint MTA Honored for Jobs Partnership

The Mass Transportation Authority (MTA), Flint, MI, recently received the Innovation in Transportation Award from the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce for a new program that transports 300-400 new employees the 39 miles from the Flint/Genesee area to jobs in neighboring Howell/Livingston County.

Additional employers are working with the MTA to expand service further and address the needs of several hundred workers who will commute to the Howell area daily.

“It’s my estimation that, within the next year, our work-related commuter services, now serving seven counties, will grow to 5,000 unique riders per day and 10,000 individual trips, generating two to three million work-related trips annually,” said Ed Benning, MTA general manager/chief executive officer. “The Howell Chamber has been a great partner in this new service expansion and we appreciate this opportunity.”

The partnership among businesses, nonprofits and transportation officials began in December 2015 to connect job openings in Livingston County to Flint residents who wanted to work but had no transportation. This partnership is the latest version of MTA’s regional transportation efforts, which began in 1997.
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