DTW to downtown transportation...

[Honky Tonk]

Misleading? Perhaps, but highly effective. 49% increase from June 2017 to June 2019 in weekday ridership on the 3 corridors with FAST routes.

An Express bus that only picks up downtown and gets you to the airport in 25 minutes along I-94 would be fantastic, but it would also cost more because of its limited audience. Even at $5 a ride you would lose most airport workers from using it, and you would most likely never get any of the "people who can afford a plane ticket" crowd from giving up their autonomy.

Look @ the reality of the situation. Other than business people traveling with a backpack, most people heading out on vacation, travel with several pieces of luggage, children, have physical ailments, etc. Do you really think they're going to go to and park @ a bus stop to transfer all that several times, when you can just drive to and park @ the airport and transfer it once?

[EGrant]

Do you really think they're going to go to and park @ a bus stop to transfer all that several times, when you can just drive to and park @ the airport and transfer it once?

Riding public transportation to and from the airport with luggage and children is the norm in pretty much every large city on earth.

[bust]

Riding public transportation to and from the airport with luggage and children is the norm in pretty much every large city on earth.

There is at least one exception: NY. But that's one of its failures.

Look @ the reality of the situation. Other than business people traveling with a backpack, most people heading out on vacation, travel with several pieces of luggage, children, have physical ailments, etc. Do you really think they're going to go to and park @ a bus stop to transfer all that several times, when you can just drive to and park @ the airport and transfer it once?

No, the people you describe will hire a driver. It costs far less than parking and is equally convenient.

So there are [[at least) two use cases: 1) people traveling solo and/or without lots of complications; 2) people traveling with lots of complications.

For the latter set public transit may rarely be the answer. For the former it can be a great solution.

I don't know the numbers, but I am willing to bet the number of airport travelers among the former set is vastly more.