Vote Rides is officially back for 2024!
As we approach another election season, we’ve discovered the same issues remain — barriers and access to polls are what continue to keep residents of Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck from getting their voices heard.
For this reason, we are back for another Vote Rides initiative to make sure that everyone who wants to participate in the perhaps the most important part of our democracy can do so.
But we can make it much better.
We’re working the solve the transportation issue for those who want to vote. This election day we’re going to run routes with an army of volunteers with their own cars, as well as our own buses, to get everyone in the Detroit Metro Area to their local polling place. It’s pretty ambitious, but big problems usually need big answers.
This year we’re serving Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park.
Let’s do this.
Request a free individual ride to the polls! 👇
Request a free GROUP ride for your organization, housing complex, or similar 👇
Volunteer to help out 👇
This entire project is volunteer-run. If you can help, please do.
Donate to Vote Rides 👇
Your donations make this happen. This pays for fuel, flyers, protective equipment, ads, and much more.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What if I live in the Detroit Metro Area and I’m a voter that needs a ride? How do I get a ride?
A: Click the big button up above that says “Request a Ride!” After we receive your request we’ll reach back out to schedule your ride.
This year we’re serving Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck only.
Q. How do you decide what areas to service?
A. In 2024 we are serving Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck. These are areas that generally have transportation issues and therefore are our areas of focus.
Q. Why are you doing this?
A. We started our company back in 2011 with the mission of improving transit options for Detroiters. We’re still on that mission and doing all we can to make it happen. Voting is critical when it comes to making sure we’re properly represented in our city, county, state and federal governments.
Q. There are lots of people who need to get to the polls all over the place! Why aren’t you serving my city?
A. We’d love to get as many people as possible to the polls! It’s a critical part of living in this country! Alas we are a small fleet and only have a few vehicles at our disposal. If this goes well we’d like to grow the program more in the future.
If you have a car and would like to help out in your own corner of the world consider going to a local community center or housing complex and offering to give rides. I bet you’ll have more success than you think!
Q. Who is paying for this?
A. Right now it’s just us! We’re paying for all of the expenses like flyers, ads, snacks, fuel cards for our volunteer drivers, etc. Our costs to run this program this year will be about $50,000. If you’d like to donate, click right here: