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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Transportation and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). During development, the project was known as the Detroit River International Crossing...
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    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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