Fares are $2 per trip, or buy a day pass for $4.50 a week for $25. Within the city, there's a useful bus running along Main Street between German Village and the Short North.
If traveling beyond downtown, you’ll need a car to get around. The Central Ohio Transit Authority ( COTA) public bus service can take you almost anywhere in the city.
A cab from the airport to downtown is the easiest way into town but there are also shuttles, buses and limo services. John Glenn Columbus International Airport is six miles east of Columbus. Small wonder Columbus has the third highest per-capita population of gays and lesbians in the United States. With 60,000 students, this small city within the larger one has helped encourage a certain tolerant live-and-let-live ambience here, and in surrounding areas. The city is also home to Ohio State University. But this classic American city surprises with its modern attitudes, and the city has been rated as one of the best places in the country for gays and lesbians to live.ĭiversity has a long history in Columbus, composed as it is, of many ethnic neighborhoods. Skyscrapers rising from flat fertile fields recall the cover of a sixth-grade civics textbook. See the CDC and City of Columbus websites for details and updates. There are restrictions on the entry of certain travelers into the United States in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Emergency measures in the wake of Covid-19:
