‘Hero Bus Drivers’: Our bus drivers are known around the world for their big and small acts of kindness, compassion, and heroism. We regularly produce these amazing stories of MCTS Excellence, which use bus surveillance footage to highlight an employee’s actions. MCTS posts these videos and articles on our website, social media, and often sends them to media outlets for consideration. When appropriate, MCTS facilitates interviews with the highlighted employee.
Completed in August 2021, MCTS NEXT was a 3-year project aimed at creating more high-frequency bus routes to help quickly connect people to work, school and where they need to go. With re-designed routes, we’re able to make transit easier to use, more accessible, more affordable to sustain and quicker to ride. Learn more about the project here
BRT: The East-West Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route will connect riders with employment, education and recreation in downtown Milwaukee, Milwaukee’s Near West Side, Marquette University, Wauwatosa and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. With more than 30 stations, BRT will feature reliable transport every 10 minutes during peak times and serve an average of 9,500 weekday riders by 2035. BRT is cost-effective, efficient, and is proven to increase transit use with improved service frequencies, travel time and reliability and will spark millions of dollars in economic development. Learn more here.
NOW HIRING: MCTS regularly looks for qualified individuals to join our large team. From bus drivers and mechanics to route supervisors and administrative staff, it takes a lot of people to keep the system running smoothly! Let us take you behind the scenes at our Fleet Maintenance Facility to show you the incredible work that goes on every single day.
DAY IN THE LIFE: MCTS has countless positions that would make for interesting ‘day in the life’ stories. This includes mechanics working in our maintenance division, teams heading out to repair bus shelters, bus drivers navigating the streets of Milwaukee County, crews responsible for washing every bus in our custom ‘bus wash’, and so much more. We can recommend some unique behind-the-scenes work that your audience may be interested in seeing.
STAY UP TO DATE: We encourage you to view our Community Page for further inspiration on topics to cover at MCTS, including a calendar of upcoming events. Highlights include our Bus Shelter Art Project, Stuff the Bus, Miller Lite Free Rides, Juneteenth Day, and our Rosa Parks Tribute.