This is indeed terrible news, but not at all surprising; given that
the contracted agency then sub contracted the actual management duties
out. Seems to me that the original dooms day service cuts that Mayor
Bing proposed well over a year ago will now likely be carried out.

I also now have to consider that this may be the end to SMART as
well. The service cuts back in December were a direct result of DDOT
cutting back as well, this is really going to paralyze the entire
region. Did Farmington Hills opt out of SMART, I thought that they
had voted to stay in?

I am attempting to find information if this will re-invent the new
RTA that Governor Snyder is proposing, possibly now forcing some type
of merger between DDOT, SMART and AATA to preserve Transit services.
Has anybody heard anything new with this?






Quoting "H.B.Craig-II" <hbcraig2@...>:

> The City of Detroit plans to implement major DDOT service reductions
> beginning Saturday, Mar. 3, 2012.  Included in those reductions is
> the elimination of 24-hour bus service.  Although nothing "official"
> has been posted on the DDOT web-site or available in the major media
> news outlets, coach operators are reporting that schedules depicting
> the service reductions are already posted for operators to pick at
> the satellite terminals.  I guess further details are forthcoming,
> meanwhile...
>  
> Although not reported yet in the major dailies, the following online
> article from the Huffington Post Detroit website sheds a little
> light on the topic:
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/detroit-bus-cuts-ddot-henry-gaffney_n_1\
266570.html