Free Transit

Full Details for Metro

• All Metro rides will operate fare-free after 6 p.m. all days of BLINK.

• Metro Park & Ride locations (all drop off at the Riverfront Transit Center):
  • Cincinnati State (3520 Central Parkway)
  • CPS Board of Education (2651 Burnet Ave.)
  • UC Digital Futures Building (3044 Reading Rd.)

• Anyone who registers a new Transit with EZ Fare account (through the Transit app) during the 4-day event or uses the Transit app during the day to purchase Metro fare is entered to win a raffle prize from Metro. 

• All Transit users who use the app between Thurs. and Sun. – new and existing – to purchase Metro fare will be gifted a free Metro 24-hour pass through the app (gifted through the app, after the event on 10/17). 

• Due to street closures, Govt. Sq. will close nightly at 6:15 p.m. Any customers waiting at Gov. Sq. at 6:15 will be shuttled to the Regional Transit Center. Government Square will re-open nightly at 12:30 a.m. (subject to streets re-opening). 

• The Government Square information booth will be staffed from 5 p.m. - 1 a.m. nightly during the event.

• Metro Customer Care Center (513-621-4455) will remain open until midnight nightly during the event.

Full Details for TANK

• Beginning at 6 p.m. all TANK service – including direct bus service for BLINK- will be free of charge.

• Park & Ride at Northern Kentucky University (Lots K, L, M).

• TANK will have promotional giveaways, drawings, refreshments, and fun at NKU as people wait for their bus to leave. 
  • Service begins each night at NKU at 6 p.m. Last trip from NKU to Covington is at 9 p.m.
  • Bus makes no stops in between and goes straight to the Covington Transit Center.
  • Beginning at 9 p.m. each night, buses will ONLY travel from the Covington Transit Center and drop off at NKU (no pick-ups).
  • Buses will operate from the Covington Transit Center back to the park and ride for drop offs until 11 p.m. each night
  • Southbank Shuttle from the Covington Transit Center to the Riverfront Transit Center in Cincinnati for anyone wanting to experience BLINK on both sides of the river.

• TANK staff will be on-hand at Northern Kentucky University, the Riverfront Transit Center and the Covington Transit Center to assist with information, wayfinding and general help. 

• All local TANK service will operate as scheduled, with this exception-- Bus service in Cincinnati will be limited after 6 p.m. and will only operate to the Riverfront Transit Center after 6 p.m.  No “on street” service will be provided in Cincinnati by TANK after 6 p.m. for the duration of the BLINK event.