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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.
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.
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 rail services outside the U.S. Most of the Detroit cars that saw service from 1976 to 2003 had been acquired from Lisbon, Portugal. [34]
In 1979, SEMTA approved a regional transit plan, which included improved bus service and new rail transit, but the plan was never implemented due to lack of funds. [3] The last commuter rail service was a former Penn Central route, named the Michigan Executive, that ran from the Michigan Central Depot in Detroit to Jackson.
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 ...
SEMTA Commuter Rail, also known as the Silver Streak, was a commuter train operated by the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA) and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad between Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. It began in 1974 when SEMTA assumed control of the Grand Trunk's existing commuter trains over the route.
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 ExpressTram entered service when the McNamara Terminal opened on February 24, 2002. The two trams on the system were painted red because Northwest Airlines' primary branding color was red. Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010, who continues to operate the Detroit hub. Despite the merger, the trams have retained their red color, but ...