Getting to Lansing (Michigan): By bus

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Capital Area Transit Authority (CATA) provides local bus service. Daily ridership is approximately 49,000 (weekday). CATA enjoys high ridership along lines servicing Michigan State University in East Lansing. CATA won APTA's America's Best Transit System award for 1991 in the medium-size category, and again for 2007 in the 4–30 million annual passenger trips category. This award is given to systems with great efficiency and cost-effectiveness, a high safety rating, and a stable operations base, among other criteria. In 2008, CATA was recognized in the October issue of "Metro Magazine" as one of the Ten Best Places to Work in Transit. The article chronicled CATA's family-like culture, recognition of hard work, extreme efficiency, the Open-door policy of the executive office, and the pride CATA's workers mentioned in their employee surveys. CATA logged a record-breaking 11,306,339 rides in fiscal year 2008, a 5.8% increase over the previous years record of 10,682,792, following several years of unprecedented growth.

Greyhound Lines service Lansing and East Lansing, with direct connections to Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo (with transfers to Chicago). Lansing Owosso, Michigan-based Indian Trails Bus Lines provides daily service to Chicago. Michigan Flyer Motorcoach Service provides multiple daily connections to Detroit Metropolitan Airport with stops in Jackson and Ann Arbor.