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Transportation in metropolitan Detroit comprises an expansive system of roadways, multiple public transit systems, a major international airport, freight railroads, and ports. Located on the Detroit River along the Great Lakes Waterway, Detroit is a significant city in international trade, with two land crossings to Canada. Three primary ...
The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) is the public transit operator serving the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Beginning operations in 1967 as the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA), the agency was reorganized and renamed SMART in 1989.
The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) is a public transit agency serving Metro Detroit and the Ann Arbor area in the U.S. state of Michigan. It operates the QLINE streetcar in Detroit, [1] and coordinates and oversees the public transit services operated by DDOT, SMART, TheRide, and the Detroit People Mover.
Ten car trains were to operate on the line, with feeder bus service going to the 19 subway passenger stations, according to an article in the now-defunct Detroit Evening Times.
The Detroit Downtown Trolley (originally the Detroit Citizens' Railway) was a heritage trolley built in 1976 as a U.S. Bicentennial project. [33] The trolley ran over a one-mile L-shaped route from Grand Circus Park to near the Renaissance Center, via Washington Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue, using narrow-gauge trams acquired from municipal ...
Concurrently, a private group of local business leaders decided to provide matching funds to government dollars to develop a $125 million, 3.4-mile (5.5 km) line through central Detroit (similar to the Tacoma Link) called the M-1 Rail Line. After much wrangling between the private investors and the DDOT, the two groups decided to work in tandem ...
Detroit station is an intermodal transit station in Detroit, Michigan. Located in New Center , the facility currently serves Amtrak and QLine streetcars. It also serves as a stop for Greyhound Lines , Detroit Department of Transportation buses, SMART and buses.
Ann Arbor–Detroit Regional Rail (also known as MiTrain and formerly known as SEMCOG Commuter Rail [note 1]) is a proposed commuter rail service along the Michigan Line between the cities of Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan, a total length of 39.72 miles (63.92 km). [1]