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17 communities in Wayne County currently opt out of SMART service, of which all but one opted out with the first millage in 1995. [12] 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.
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.
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 center connects five DDOT routes — 4 Woodward, 12 Conant, 17 Eight Mile, 30 Livernois and 54 Wyoming — and eight SMART bus routes to service an estimated 25,000 riders a week, as well as ...
Transit systems have not fully recovered from COVID-19. In Detroit, officials face low ridership, hiring challenges and ongoing service disruptions.
The Detroit Department of Transportation is boosting frequency on the 9-Jefferson route as a template for improvements elsewhere in the city.
For example, DDOT route 2 follows Michigan Avenue, which goes on to travel through the general area of the SMART routes whose numbers begin with 2. Similarly, DDOT routes 7 and 17, crosstown routes following 7 Mile and 8 Mile respectively, run parallel to SMART's mile-road crosstown routes, whose numbers begin with 7.
The Jason Hargrove Transit Center (JHTC) is a major public transit station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.It is the third iteration of the State Fair Transit Center, located at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds, [1] near the Gateway Marketplace and intersection of 8 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.