ridership of 11,048,700, or about 41,300 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2024. The DDOT began its life as the Department of Street Railways (DSR)...
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Michigan streetcar system to the city, under the management of the Department of Street Railways (DSR). The company continued to abandon or sell properties...
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Brush Street Station was a passenger train station on the eastside of downtown Detroit, Michigan, located at the foot of Brush Street at its intersection...
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stop for Greyhound Lines, Detroit Department of Transportation buses, SMART and buses. Baltimore Street station, in the median of Woodward Avenue, serves...
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QLine (redirect from Detroit streetcar)
Detroit United Railway. Municipal takeover and control of the streetcar network by Detroit's Department of Street Railways followed in 1922. Detroit Mayor...
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America's Thanksgiving Parade (category Culture of Detroit)
Streetcars ceased operating on Woodward Avenue in 1956 when the Detroit Department of Street Railways converted to an all-motor-bus fleet. The Michigan Thanksgiving...
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Detroit and Pontiac, the trip took 45 minutes. The city had one of the first municipally owned streetcar systems. The Department of Street Railways had...
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Detroit (/dɪˈtrɔɪt/ dih-TROYT, locally also /ˈdiːtrɔɪt/ DEE-troyt) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the largest U.S. city...
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Davenport Street Railway Detroit Belt Railroad Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Detroit and Huron Railway Detroit and Huron Railway Detroit and Milwaukee...
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M-1 (Michigan highway) (redirect from Woodward Avenue (Detroit))
Detroit area of the US state of Michigan. The highway, called "Detroit's Main Street", runs from Detroit north-northwesterly to Pontiac. It is one of...
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local service. (A second section of express wires, located farther out along route 66, between Ryan Street and Rhawn Street, was removed around 2007, its...
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Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (redirect from List of bus routes in Detroit suburbs)
to levy taxes. By 1974, the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR) had been reorganized as a city department of Detroit, leaving SEMTA only coordination...
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Fenkell Street. Rosa Parks Memorial Highway (I-96) cuts through the southern end of the neighborhood. Brightmoor is served by Detroit Department of Transportation...
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Urban growth in Detroit Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement...
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Amalgamated Transit Union (redirect from Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America)
industry. Established in 1892 as the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, the union was centered primarily in the Eastern United...
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M-10 (Michigan highway) (section Detroit)
was named after the death of James J. Couzens. Couzens was a former Commissioner of Detroit's Department of Street Railways from 1913 through 1915, after...
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The Detroit Downtown Trolley, also known as the Washington Boulevard Trolley and Detroit Citizens Railway, was a heritage trolley line in Downtown Detroit...
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1974, facing a loss of funding from SEMTA and wanting more control of its transit affairs, Detroit's Department of Street Railways (DSR) restructured itself...
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country. In 1893, he began construction of J. L. Hudson Department Store at Gratiot and Farmer Streets in Detroit. The store grew over the years and a 25-story...
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info/South/SAL54TT.pdf Official Guide of the Railways June 1963, 'Seaboard Air Line' The History of Main Street Station (Richmond Metropolitan Authority)...
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Fort Street Union Depot was a passenger train station located at the southwest corner of West Fort Street and Third Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan...
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Michigan Central Station (redirect from Michigan Central Station (Detroit))
artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The other major station of Detroit was the Fort Street Union Depot. In the 1920s Henry Ford began to buy land near...
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This is a list of mayors of Detroit, Michigan. See History of Detroit, for more information about the history of the incorporation of the city. The current...
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Ambassador Bridge (redirect from Detroit International Bridge Company)
Bridge is an international suspension bridge across the Detroit River that connects Detroit, Michigan, United States, with Windsor, Ontario, Canada....
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The Detroit River is an international river in North America. The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian...
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Chestnut Street Bridge is located where Chestnut Street passes over the Dequindre Cut (formerly owned by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad) in Detroit, Michigan...
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Conrail Shared Assets Operations (category Norfolk Southern Railway)
operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching...
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M-102 (Michigan highway) (redirect from 8 mile Detroit)
state of Michigan that runs along the northern boundary of Detroit following 8 Mile Road. The highway follows the Michigan Baseline, a part of the land...
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Gordie Howe International Bridge (redirect from Detroit River International Crossing)
Transportation and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). During development, the project was known as the Detroit River International Crossing...
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Interstate 96 (redirect from Old BS I-96 (Detroit))
rapid transit with a grade-separated route to downtown. The Department of Street Railways determined in 1947 that the operation would cost $6 million...
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