{"id":656516,"date":"2026-04-01T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656516\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:08:16","slug":"tigers-opening-day-smart-offers-free-rides-on-friday-to-make-getting-to-detroit-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656516\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Opening Day: SMART offers free rides on Friday to make getting to Detroit easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smartbus.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">DETROIT (FOX 2) &#8211; Headed to Downtown Detroit for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/mlb\/tigers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tigers Opening Day<\/a> on Friday? SMART is hoping to make getting around easier with free bus rides.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">All fixed routes in Metro Detroit, including lines that go to Comerica Park, will be free all day April 3.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Opening Day is one of Detroit&#8217;s greatest traditions, and there&#8217;s no better way to kick off the season than by riding SMART,&#8221; said Tiffany J. Gunter, General Manager &amp; CEO, SMART. &#8220;We&#8217;re making it easy for fans to leave the car at home, skip the parking headache, and arrive at Comerica Park ready to cheer on our Tigers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/things-to-do-detroit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things To Do<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/wayne-county\/detroit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/mlb\/tigers\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DETROIT (FOX 2) &#8211; Headed to Downtown Detroit for Tigers Opening Day on Friday? SMART is hoping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,5826,3993,4,169,185,83903,594,609,3994],"class_list":["post-656516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-baseball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-lifestyle","tag-mi","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-things-to-do-detroit","tag-tigers","tag-us","tag-wayne-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116329377004732877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}