When the Portage site was created it was far out in the country. This was at a time when many employees did not have automobiles and were used to walking or riding a bicycle into work at the Downtown Kalamazoo complex. The company realized that a bus service was needed and purchased buses, only a couple at first but at its peak the service used 15 company buses. They were driven by employees who kept the buses overnight at their homes and then picked up other employees as they drove their buses to Portage. The buses were maintained in the company garage at the Portage site. As employees bought cars the number of buses diminished. By 1980 Kalamazoo Metro Transit was being hired to provide a single bus route from Kalamazoo to the Portage site and that was eventually discontinued.