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The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) (pronounced DEE-dot) is the primary public transportation operator serving Detroit, Michigan. In existence since 1922, DDOT is a division of the city government , headed by a director appointed by the mayor .
Dana Afana is the Detroit city hall reporter for the Free Press. Contact: dafana@freepress.com or 313-635-3491. Follow her: @DanaAfana.
Hargrove, a father of six, had worked for DDOT since 2016, and was an active member of the Amalgamated Transit Union. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Hargrove gained national attention from a viral video he posted on Facebook on March 21, 2020, [ 11 ] in which he described being coughed on by a careless passenger, and advocated for stronger protections for DDOT ...
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 city of Detroit announced its plans today for road closures leading up to next week's Grand Prix event The three-day event will be in downtown from Friday, May 31, until Sunday, June 2.
Dr. Lynn Smitherman, general pediatrician at Wayne Health Pediatrics said last year, 7,939 children were born in Detroit, of whom 15% were low birth weight, compared with 8.6% nationally, and 19% ...
During the 1990s, two attempts were made to merge SMART and DDOT service. The first was in late 1994 and early 1995, when five routes were merged, however, that attempt was cancelled. Another attempt was made in late 1996 when SMART started operating full service in Detroit and DDOT launched five suburban routes, however that too never took off.
The transit center building was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff, and the canopy by FTL Design Engineering Studio of Detroit. [ 2 ] Besides acting as the central hub of DDOT, the station is a stop on many SMART routes which connect the city to its suburbs, the Transit Windsor Tunnel Bus, a commuter and special bus service connecting the ...