COTA Offering Free Rides During First Week of Redesigned Network

The Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) will offer free rides from May 1 – 7, the first week of its redesigned bus network, when schedule changes and altered routes will go into effect.
The idea is to ease what could be a rocky transition for regular COTA users, while also encouraging new riders to try out the system for the first time.
COTA employees have been stationed at busy stops since March to explain the coming changes and answer questions from riders about how their routes will b