Detroit Department of Transportation
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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, express bus, paratransit |
| Routes | 35 routes |
| Hubs | Rosa Parks Transit Center, State Fairgrounds Transit Center |
| Fleet | 300 buses[1] |
| Daily ridership | 91,700 (Q4 2015)[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. DDOT partners with the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART).
Services
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 the city to the rest of Metro Detroit and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Bus service generally operates 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.[4] On Woodward Avenue (Route 53), Dexter Avenue (Route 16), Gratiot Avenue (Route 34), and Grand River Avenue (Route 21) bus service operates 24/7 service.[5]
Along with operating fixed-route bus service, DDOT also operates MetroLift, an on-demand paratransit service with 220 to 240 wheelchair accessible vehicles. DDOT contracts with three providers for this service: Checker Cab, Enjoi Transportation, and Lakeside Divisions.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
Between 2009 and 2012, the system's seven remaining limited and express bus routes were discontinued.[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 consultancy run 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] 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.[14] MV Transportation's contract was extended for another two years on August 12, 2014.[15] On January 23, 2016 DDOT reintroduced 24-hour service on three principal routes along with other smaller service changes.[5]
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.[16] 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.[17]
Fares
For all transfers round trips & stopovers are prohibited, and are good for 2 hours upon boarding. No fare per use thereafter.
Standard Fares
| Type | Fee | Transfer |
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| Adult Base Fare | $1.50 | $0.25 |
| Student Fare (with DDOT Student ID) | $0.75 | $0.25 |
| Senior/Disabled^ | $0.50 | $0.10 |
| Medicare Cardholder^^ | $0.75 | $0.10 |
| Children under 44 inches (110 cm) with adult (limit 3) | Free | |
Pass Fees
| Type | Fee |
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| DDOT Monthly GoPass |
$47 |
| DDOT Biweekly GoPass |
$27.50 |
| DDOT Weekly GoPass |
$14.40 |
| DDOT $10 Value Card |
$10 |
| DDOT 5-Day Pass |
$14 |
| DDOT/SMART Regional Monthly Pass |
$49.50 |
| DDOT Senior/Disabled Monthly GoPass |
$17 |
^To receive discounted fares, seniors (age 65+) and disabled passengers must present either DDOT Special Fares ID CARD or State ID with Visual impairment designation.
^^Medicare cardholders pay one-half fare for all fixed-route service.
Routes
| Route | Inbound Stops | Outbound Stops | Schedule |
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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 Eight 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 |
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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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| 95 Ryan Express (Mon-Fri Only) |
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| 96 Joy Express (Mon-Fri Only) |
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Fleet
Current Fleet
| Year | Make | Model | Length | Capacity | Propulsion | Engine | Fleet Series | Quantity |
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| 2003 | New Flyer | D40LF | 40 | 39 | Diesel | Detroit Diesel Series 50 | 3900-3959 | 60 |
| 2004 | New Flyer | D40LF | 40 | 39 | Diesel | Detroit Diesel Series 50 | 3975-3989 | 15 |
| 2005 | New Flyer | D40LF | 40 | 39 | Diesel | Cummins ISL-05 | 4100-4220 | 121 |
| 2010 | New Flyer | D40LF | 40 | 39 | Diesel | Cummins ISL-07 | 1001-1050 | 50 |
| 2011 | Gillig | Low Floor | 40 | 39 | Diesel | Cummins ISL-07 | 1201-1242 | 42 |
| 2012 | Gillig | Low Floor | 40 | 39 | Diesel Electric | Cummins ISB | 1243-1246 | 4 |
| 2014 | New Flyer | XD40 | 41 | 40 | Diesel | Cummins ISL9 | 1400-1430 | 31 |
| 2015 | New Flyer | XD40 | 41 | 40 | Diesel | Cummins ISL9 | 1500-1508 1519-1538 | 29 |
| 2015 | New Flyer | XDE40 | 41 | 40 | Diesel Electric | Cummins ISB | 1509-1518 | 10 |
| 2015 | New Flyer | XD60 | 60.8 | 60 | Diesel | Cummins ISL9 | 1539-1548 | 10 |
Retired Fleet
Gallery
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Rosa Parks Transit Center
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A (SMART) Gillig low-floor bus along Woodward Avenue.
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Fourth Quarter, 2015" (PDF). Public Transportation Ridership Report. American Public Transportation Association. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Portals/0/docs/deptoftransportation/pdfs/DDOT_System_Map_2009.pdf
- ↑ http://www.detroitmi.gov/Departments/DetroitDepartmentofTransportation/BusInformation/PocketSchedules/tabid/1255/Default.aspx
- 1 2 "DDOT Service Change Proposal, January 2016" (PDF). detroitmi.gov/. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ↑ "Detroit MetroLift's Disabled Riders Enjoy Benefits of New, Expanded Service" (PDF). http://www.detroitmi.gov/. Detroit Department of Transportation. Retrieved 10 March 2015. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ 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. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ "Detroit Transit History.info". http://www.detroittransithistory.info. Retrieved 2014-03-23. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ http://www.jtbell.net/transit/Detroit/Trolley/
- ↑ http://www.heritagetrolley.org/existDetroit1.htm
- ↑ "Detroit Transit History Roster". detroittransithistory.info.
- ↑ "Detroit Transit Info Retried Fleet". detroittransithistory.info.