Detroit Department of Transportation

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Detroit Department of Transportation
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ParentCity of Detroit
Founded1922
Headquarters1301 East Warren Avenue
Service areaDetroit, limited suburban service
Service typebus service
Routes36 routes
HubsRosa Parks Transit Center, State Fairgrounds Transit Center
Fleet449 buses[1]
Daily ridership114,800 (Q2 2011)[2]
Fuel typeDiesel
CEORon Freeland
WebsiteDetroit Department of Transportation

The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT, pronounced "D-Dot") is the public transportation operator of city bus service in Detroit, Michigan. In existence since 1922, it has headquarters in the Midtown section of Detroit and is a municipal department of the city government.

Overview

As the largest public transit agency in the state of Michigan, DDOT primarily serves the city of Detroit, with some additional and limited service to nearby cities of Dearborn, Hamtramck, Highland Park (both are Detroit enclaves), Harper Woods, Livonia, Redford Township, River Rouge and Southfield.[3] DDOT has a fare and ride agreement with the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation as it supplements the city with bus service linking further outside the city to the rest of Metro Detroit and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

DDOT bus service runs from 4 a.m. to 1 a.m. on the busiest corridors and principal arteries such as Woodward Avenue (where the route 53 is the most heavily used in the system),[4] Gratiot Avenue, Grand River Avenue and Jefferson Avenue. Otherwise, most other routes run between 5 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, while Sunday service starts approximately 7 a.m. and ends between 8 and 9 p.m.[5]

History

The DDOT began its life as the Department of Street Railways (DSR) in 1922 after the acquisition of the privately owned Detroit United Railway (DUR), which had controlled much of Detroit's mass transit operations since its incorporation in 1901.[6] The DSR added bus service when it created the Motorbus Division in 1925. At the height of its operation in 1941, the DSR operated 20 streetcar lines with 910 streetcars.[7] By 1952, only four streetcar lines remained: Woodward, Grand River, Michigan and Jefferson. Streetcar services was discontinued in April 1956 with the decommissioning of the Woodward line. Municipal rail transit would not resume service until Detroit's Downtown Trolley was built in 1976 as a U.S. Bicentennial project and then the Detroit People Mover, operated by the separate city agency named the Detroit Transit Corporation, was added in 1987. Detroit's Downtown Trolley[8] 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. Many Detroiters old enough to remember streetcar service from before 1956 were delighted with the nod to nostalgia that the little trolley cars represented, but lack of downtown business activity in downtown Detroit meant that ridership of the Downtown Trolley never became more than a novelty and declined to only about 3000 per year in the late 1990s; service was suspended in June 2003.[9]

The DSR formally became the DDOT in 1974 under the Detroit City Charter.[10]

Starting January 1, 2012, management of DDOT was contracted out to Parsons Brinckerhoff, an engineering and management firm. The firm subsequently subcontracted the management of the system to Envisurage, LLC a consultant ran by the former CEO of the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority.[11][12] On March 3, 2012, 24-hour service was discontinued, and other weekday and weekend routes and services were pared down, or eliminated entirely, in an attempt to produce savings for the department.[13]

Fares

  • Adult Fare - $1.50
  • Student Fare (w/DDOT student ID card) - $0.75
  • Transfer - $0.25
  • Medicare Card Holders (Half Fare) - $0.75
  • Medicare Card Holders (Transfer) - $0.10
  • DDOT Monthly GoPass Fare - $47
  • DDOT Bi-Weekly GoPass Fare - $27.50
  • DDOT Weekly GoPass Fare - $14.40
  • DDOT $10 Value Card - $10
  • DDOT Five Day Pass - $14
  • Seniors/Disabled (with appropriate ID card) - $0.50 One-Way Fare; Transfer $0.10
  • Children (limit 3/under 44" with adult) - Free
  • DDOT/SMART Regional Monthly Pass - $49.50

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Route list

  • 7 Cadillac Ave.-Harper Ave. via Kercheval St.
  • 9 Chalmers Ave. (extends to E. Eight Mile Rd./Waltham St. rush hour weekdays)
  • 10 Chene St. via Hamtramck (Joseph Campau St.) and Nevada St.
  • 11 Clairmount St. (via Epworth St., service extends east of Woodward Ave. to E. Jefferson Ave. & St. Jean St. every 80 minutes) "No Weekend Service"
  • 12 Conant St. via Hamtramck/ Mt. Elliott St.
  • 13 Conner Ave. via Gunston St. (extends to Korte/Philip St. rush hour weekdays)
  • 14 Crosstown (via Culture Center Area, Dearborn and Forest Ave. Eastbound)
  • 15 Chicago St.-Davison St. (via Oakman Blvd., extends to E. McNichols Rd./Joseph Campau St. weekdays)
  • 16 Dexter Ave. (via New Center Area-certain trips ending at Southfield Fwy./W. Outer Dr.)
  • 17 Eight Mile Rd. (via Fairgrounds and Northland Mall)
  • 18 Fenkell St. via Rosa Parks Blvd. (12th St. Outbound), 14th St. Inbound
  • 21 Grand River Ave.
  • 22 Greenfield Rd.
  • 23 Hamilton Ave. via Highland Park (2nd St. Outbound and 3rd St. Inbound)
  • 25 Jefferson Ave./Fort St. (via Rosa Parks Transit Center with some trips traveling on W. Bassett)
  • 27 Joy Rd. via W. Grand Blvd. (Southwest Detroit)
  • 29 Linwood Ave. via Trumbull St.
  • 30 Livernois Ave.
  • 31 Mack Ave.
  • 32 McNichols Rd. via Seymour St.
  • 34 Gratoit Ave.
  • 36 Oakland Ave. (via Medical Center Area/ Dequindre Rd.) "No Weekend Service"
  • 37 Michigan Ave.
  • 38 Plymouth Rd. via Hamtramck (Caniff Ave.)-Extending to Eight Mile Rd./Gratiot Ave. via (Hayes St.) during rush hours on weekdays
  • 39 Puritan St.
  • 40 Russell St. (via Hamtramck and E. Outer Dr.) "No Weekend Service"
  • 41 Schaefer Hwy.
  • 43 Schoolcraft St.
  • 45 Seven Mile Rd. via Morang Dr.
  • 46 Southfield Fwy. (service from 6:30am to 10am and 2:30pm to 9pm Mon-Fri, 6am-9am and 3pm to 8pm Saturdays) "No Sunday Service"
  • 47 Tireman via W. Grand Blvd (Southwest Detroit) "No Sunday Service"
  • 48 Van Dyke St.-Lafayette St.
  • 49 Vernor Hwy. W. (Southwest Detroit)
  • 53 Woodward Ave. (via Highland Park/Cultural Center Area/Mediacl Center Area and New Center Area)
  • 54 Wyoming St.
  • 60 Evergreen Rd.

DDOT System Route Map [1]

Current Fleet Roster

Year Picture Builder Model Length (ft) Propulsion Engine Fleet series Quantity Garage
2001 NovaBus RTS-06 40 Diesel Detroit Diesel Series 50 3700-3749 50 Coolidge
3750-3789 40 Gilbert
3790-3799 10
2002 3800-3829 30 Coolidge
3830-3859 30 Gilbert
2004 New Flyer D40LF 3900-3929 30 Coolidge
3930-3959 30 Gilbert
3975-3982 8 Coolidge
3983-3989 7 Gilbert
2005 Cummins ISL 4100-4160 61 Coolidge
4161-4220 60 Gilbert
2010 1001-1025 25 Coolidge
1026-1050 25 Gilbert
2012 Gillig Low Floor 1201-1242 42 ???
Diesel-electric Hybrid Cummins ISB 1243-1246 4 ???

Gallery

Rosa Parks Transit Center

Rosa Parks Transit Center

The Rosa Parks Transit Center is a 25,700 square feet (2,400 m2) building and a 2.4 acres (0.97 ha; 0.0038 sq mi) site with 15 bus bays. It serves as a major transfer point for both buses and, via Michigan Avenue Station, the Detroit People Mover.[15] The site features seven large white fabric canopies which hang over the bus transfer area.

The center was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff and was completed in July 2009.

Detroit Area Buses

  • A (SMART) Gillig low-floor bus along Woodward Avenue.
    A (SMART) Gillig low-floor bus along Woodward Avenue.

Informational

See also

Detroit People Mover

References

  1. ^ Esparza, Santiago (25 October 2011). "Workers, students riled by late DDOT buses". The Detroit News. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  2. ^ APTA Public Transportation Ridership Report, Second Quarter 2011, released March 2011
  3. ^ http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Portals/0/docs/deptoftransportation/pdfs/DDOT_System_Map_2009.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/deptoftransportation/New_Bus_Scheds092010/green/53WoodwardMS.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.detroitmi.gov/Departments/DetroitDepartmentofTransportation/BusInformation/PocketSchedules/tabid/1255/Default.aspx
  6. ^ http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=50
  7. ^ "DEPARTMENT OF STREET RAILWAYS (D.S.R.) 1941 STREETCAR ROUTE MAP". http://www.detroittransithistory.com. Retrieved 16 January 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  8. ^ http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Detroit/Trolley/
  9. ^ http://www.heritagetrolley.org/existDetroit1.htm
  10. ^ Detroit Transit History website, accessed 24 October 2011
  11. ^ Kaffer, Nancy (5 January 2012). "Bing: Detroit won't run out of cash in April — thanks to cuts, more revenue". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  12. ^ Bukowski, Diane (9 February 2012). "Bing to slash bus routes; DDOT routes Feb. 24". Voice of Detroit. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  13. ^ Phelps, Greenwood, Laura, Tom (3 March 2012). "Changes to Detroit bus service in effect". The Detroit News. Retrieved 4 March 2012. {{cite news}}: Text "FRONTPAGE" ignored (help); Text "p" ignored (help); Text "text" ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ http://71.159.22.28/DepartmentsandAgencies/DetroitDepartmentofTransportation/BusSchedules/Fares/tabid/1256/Default.aspx
  15. ^ "PB World: Rosa Parks Transit Center".

External links

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