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Revision as of 15:48, 20 January 2015
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| Parent | City of Detroit |
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| Founded | 1922 |
| Headquarters | 1301 East Warren Avenue |
| Service area | Detroit, limited suburban service |
| Service type | bus service |
| Routes | 35 routes |
| Hubs | Rosa Parks Transit Center, State Fairgrounds Transit Center |
| Fleet | 300 buses[1] |
| Daily ridership | 83,300 (2nd Quarter 2014)[2] |
| Fuel type | Diesel |
| Operator | MV Transportation |
| Director | Dan Dirks |
| Website | Detroit 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, Gratiot, Michigan and Jefferson. Streetcar services was discontinued in April 1956 with the decommissioning of the Woodward line. The DSR formally became the DDOT in 1974 under the Detroit City Charter.[8]
Between 2009 and 2012, the system's seven remaining limited and express bus routes were discontinued.[9] 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 consultancy run by the former CEO of the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority.[10][11] 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.[12] In August 2013, management of DDOT was contracted out to MV Transportation under the direction of Paul Toliver until September 2014. Dan Dirks was appointed director of the department by mayor Mike Duggan on January 9, 2014 for the duration of MV Transportation's contract.[13] MV Transportation's contract was extended for another two years on August 12, 2014.[14]
Detroit Downtown Trolley
The Detroit Downtown Trolley (originally the Detroit Citizen's Railway) was a heritage trolley built in 1976 as a U.S. Bicentennial project.[15] 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. Many Detroiters old enough to remember streetcar service from before 1956 were delighted with the nod to nostalgia that the service represented, but lack of 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.[16]
Fares
- Base Fare[17]
- $1.50, $0.25 for transfer
- DDOT GoPass - Monthly $47, Bi-Weekly - $27.50, Weekly - $14.40
- DDOT $10 Value Card - $10
- DDOT Five Day Pass - $14
- DDOT/SMART Regional Monthly Pass - $49.50
- Discounted Fares
- Medicare Card Holders - $0.75, $0.10 for transfer
- Seniors/Disabled (with appropriate ID card) - $0.50, $0.10 for transfer
- Student Fare (w/DDOT student ID card) - $0.75, $0.25 for transfer
- Children (limit 3/under 44" with adult) - Free
Routes
| Route | Inbound Stops | Outbound Stops | Service Times |
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| 07 Cadillac-Harper |
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| 09 Chalmers |
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| 10 Chene |
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| 11 Clairmount |
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| 12 Conant |
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| 13 Conner |
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| 14 Crosstown |
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| 15 Chicago-Davison |
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| 16 Dexter |
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| 17 8 Mile |
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| 18 Fenkell |
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| 21 Grand River |
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| 22 Greenfield |
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| 23 Hamilton |
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| 25 Jefferson-Fort |
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| 27 Joy |
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| 29 Linwood |
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| 30 Livernois |
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| 31 Mack |
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| 32 McNichols |
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| 34 Gratiot |
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| 37 Michigan |
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| 38 Plymouth |
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| 39 Puritan |
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| 40 Russell |
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| 41 Schaefer |
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| 43 Schoolcraft |
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| 45 Seven Mile |
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| 46 Southfield |
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| 47 Tireman |
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| 48 Van Dyke-Lafayette |
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| 49 Vernor |
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| 53 Woodward |
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| 54 Wyoming |
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| 60 Evergreen |
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Current Fleet Roster
| Year | Picture | Builder | Model | Length (ft) | Propulsion | Engine | Fleet series | Quantity | Garage |
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| 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 | |||||||
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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 Gillig Low Floor | 1201-1242 | 42 | ??? | ||||
| Diesel-electric Hybrid | Cummins ISB | 1243-1246 | 4 | ??? | |||||
| 2014 | New Flyer | Low Floor XDE40 | 40 | Diesel-electric Hybrid | Cummins ISB | 1401-1432 | 32 | ??? |
Gallery
Rosa Parks Transit Center
The Rosa Parks Transit Center is a 25,700-square-foot (2,390 m2) building and a 2.4-acre (0.97 ha) site with 15 bus bays. It serves as a major transfer point for both buses and, via Michigan Avenue Station, the Detroit People Mover.[18] 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
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A (SMART) Gillig low-floor bus along Woodward Avenue.
Informational
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Sunday DDOT schedule changes March 3, 2012
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Saturday DDOT schedule changes March 3, 2012
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Weekday DDOT schedule changes March 3, 2012
See also
References
 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (November 2009) |
- ^ Burns, Gus (7 January 2014). "Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announces firing of DDOT director in speech; bus boss says it's news to him". MLive.com. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "First Quarter 2014" (PDF). Public Transportation Ridership Report. American Public Transportation Association. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Portals/0/docs/deptoftransportation/pdfs/DDOT_System_Map_2009.pdf
- ^ http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/deptoftransportation/New_Bus_Scheds092010/green/53WoodwardMS.pdf
- ^ http://www.detroitmi.gov/Departments/DetroitDepartmentofTransportation/BusInformation/PocketSchedules/tabid/1255/Default.aspx
- ^ http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=50
- ^ "DEPARTMENT OF STREET RAILWAYS (D.S.R.) 1941 STREETCAR ROUTE MAP". http://www.detroittransithistory.info. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Detroit Transit History.info". http://www.detroittransithistory.info. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "DDOT Routes & Numbers". Detroit Transit History.info. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bukowski, Diane (9 February 2012). "Bing to slash bus routes; DDOT routes Feb. 24". Voice of Detroit. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ Phelps, Greenwood, Laura, Tom (3 March 2012). "Changes to Detroit bus service in effect". The Detroit News. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Mayor Duggan Names Dan Dirks as DDOT Director". City of Detroit Department of Communications and Creative Services. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ "City of Detroit Extends Administrative Support Services Contract with MV Transportation". http://www.mvtransit.com/. MV Transportation. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ http://www.jtbell.net/transit/Detroit/Trolley/
- ^ http://www.heritagetrolley.org/existDetroit1.htm
- ^ http://71.159.22.28/DepartmentsandAgencies/DetroitDepartmentofTransportation/BusSchedules/Fares/tabid/1256/Default.aspx
- ^ "PB World: Rosa Parks Transit Center".