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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]
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 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 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 ...
The Detroit Department of Transportation is boosting frequency on the 9-Jefferson route as a template for improvements elsewhere in the city.
The transit center is named for DDOT bus driver Jason Hargrove, who died on April 1, 2020 from complications of COVID-19. Hargrove, a father of six, had worked for DDOT since 2016, and was an active member of the Amalgamated Transit Union. [11] [12]
The Detroit Department of Transportation is offering $3 hourly pay raises and an attendance bonus increase, pending approval. DDOT bus drivers to get starting pay boost to $19.15 per hour under ...
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 agencies' buses can easily be told apart by their color schemes. DDOT's older buses are white with yellow-and-green stripes, while their newer buses are mint green.