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The only long-distance passenger rail service currently offered in the area is the Wolverine, a thrice-daily Amtrak service from Pontiac to Chicago. The Wolverine makes intermediate stops in Troy , Royal Oak , Midtown Detroit , Dearborn , and Ann Arbor , before continuing west through Michigan and Indiana to its terminus at Chicago Union Station .
Restored ex-DSR bus 7618 built by Checker Cab at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The DDOT began its life as the Department of Street Railways (DSR) in 1922 after the municipalization of the privately-owned Detroit United Railway (DUR), which had controlled much of Detroit's mass transit operations since its incorporation in 1901. [3]
By 1974, the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR) had been reorganized as a city department of Detroit, leaving SEMTA only coordination over the suburban services. [3] That same year, SEMTA acquired a commuter train service between downtown Detroit and Pontiac from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Due to declining ridership and a lack ...
The Michigan Central Open experience at the train station, located at 2001 15th St. in Detroit, is just getting started and will chug along through the summer, offering plenty of chances to ...
D2A2 service began in March 2020. [5] [6] [7] The Detroit Air Xpress (DAX) is a non-stop express bus service connecting downtown Detroit with Detroit Metropolitan Airport. It runs every 60-90 minutes from 3:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week, serving Downtown Detroit via a stop on Washington Boulevard near the Rosa Parks Transit Center. [8]
The ex-Grand Trunk station in 1978. The first railroad service between Pontiac and Detroit by The Detroit & Pontiac railroad started in 1843. [7] Since August 1931 the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTWR, a subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway) provided commuter rail service from Pontiac to Detroit. [8]
The new 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) station was officially opened for service on 10 December 2014, [7] and consolidates the old station and the Greenfield Village station. [ 8 ] A group called Pockets of Perception, made up of ten students of Dearborn senior high schools, created a 18-by-20-foot (5.5 m × 6.1 m) mosaic, titled ...
Michigan Avenue station (signed and often known simply as Michigan) is a Detroit People Mover station in downtown Detroit, Michigan.It is located at the corner of Michigan and Cass Avenues, across the street from the Rosa Parks Transit Center, the main downtown hub of the Detroit Department of Transportation bus network.