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Only free transportation I have come across in the Midwest is Free shuttle to nearby casinos. Now I hope they also have a shuttle or two to the next city center but I have my doubts that I can reach Atlantic City from here. I should try that next spring.

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Only free transportation I have come across in the Midwest is Free shuttle to nearby casinos.

When you get out into the really small towns there are often free, regularly scheduled shuttle busses and vans paid for by the state or county that ferry people to the nearest medium-sized town for groceries and pharmacies and such. Usually it's the elderly and poor that use them. Some of those routes are an hour or two each way.

Is that all within the same city, or is the casino shuttling people from nearby cities?

If multiple nearby cities, you could go anywhere in the network via the casino!

The casino is 45m away from a major city, and they have a few routes going through it. It isn't in a big town itself, so I hope they can connect me to another big city from there. Casino-touring here I come.

This would violate the "It must be available free of charge to any person regardless of citizenship, residency, age, occupation, gender or any other characteristic." rule though. Would the bus accept a 16 year old?

I was underage when I used it, when the shuttle driver asked if I had the years I asked him if they ID on the shuttle or at the entrance of the casino. I stayed on. EDIT: I guess it does discriminate on age. Having trouble editing OP.

I'm surprised that they didn't ID at the shuttle. My ex loved going to casinos and we been to over 20 in North America taking the shuttle buses. For us they either required ID at the shuttle boarding or the member card at shutting boarding. Of course the member card is free, but you needed to be of age at the casino to get one.

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