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It serves as the secondary hub for the Detroit Department of Transportation bus network, as well as a major transfer point for the suburban SMART network, served by 13 bus routes in total. [ 2 ] The JHTC is an adaptive reuse project designed by NORR, housed in the former Dairy Cattle Building , the last remaining structure from the Michigan ...
Detroit is one such community, as its own DDOT provides fixed-route bus service to the city, though it is served by SMART's FAST limited-stop routes, as well as other routes during peak hours. Communities in Macomb County and Oakland County are not able to opt out of SMART, as their millages have been levied countywide since 1995 and 2023 ...
The Erie Canal, which had first been proposed in 1807, opened in 1825 and greatly improved access to Detroit and other Michigan ports from Europe and the eastern seaboard. From Detroit, settlers were able to use the Chicago Road and other land routes. [2] Land sales in Detroit reached a peak in that year with 92,232 acres (373.25 km 2) being ...
Mayor Mike Duggan smiles as he takes a photo with a passenger inside a bus heading to the Detroit Department of Transportation's new transit center, the Jason Hargrove Transit Center, at the State ...
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, [1] and coordinates and oversees public transit operations by other agencies, including DDOT, SMART, and the Detroit People Mover.
One of Detroit’s busier east-side bus routes is getting a boost. The Detroit Department of Transportation launched a pilot project for the 9-Jefferson bus on Monday that’s designed to boost ...
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]
The Detroit People Mover (DPM) is a 2.94-mile (4.73 km) elevated automated people mover system in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [3] The system operates in a one-way loop on a single track encircling downtown Detroit, using Intermediate Capacity Transit System linear induction motor technology developed by the Urban Transportation Development Corporation.