Metro is expanding on-demand service to Mount Healthy and Northgate

If you live in areas where bus service is infrequent or spread out, you know the challenges involved in catching a bus.

Now, Greater Cincinnati's bus service is expanding a program called MetroNow to Mt. Healthy and Northgate. The pilot program started in May in Springdale and Sharonville, where for $2 a ride, you can request a ride via a phone call or with an app to anywhere within the designated zones. A Metro shuttle will pick you up at your requested location.

"The best way to describe it is to think of Uber or Lyft, but on public transit," Metro spokesperson Brandy Jones says. "We're using smaller, shuttle-style vehicles to navigate in areas that don't traditionally have a lot of bus service, or maybe our 40-foot vehicles are too big to navigate within the community, but there's lots of density there."