HELLO MEMBERS! Here's a tip that can make maneuvering thru the past messages on our web-site a bit faster for you. Whether you're a new member, or you just ...
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Mar 1, 2006 1:00 pm
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Hi George There IS a solution Ask me about it. I will spend as much time as you have to hear me out. Please e-mail me at bobcarper@... In the SUBJECT...
Good Evening, Everyone: It was 55 years ago November 13 when 2 changes were made in DSR streetcar routings were affected. The Gratiot and Michigan PCC lines...
Hello Everyone! I was excited to find this group, as I was a long time Detroit transit rider and am a bus and transit buff. I often rode the Michigan ...
I am very sad to announce the passing of Operator Lucille Jenkins, badge number 2123, Gilbert terminal. Lucille was hired at DDOT in 1977. Her favorite lines...
Welcome on board Richard....glad to have you join us. There are also a few others who were longtime past DSR and/or DDOT riders who are also members of this...
I' FIRST MET LUCILLE BACK IN THE 80'S AT GILBERT SHE WAS MY LINE INSTR ON 18 CROSSTOWN WHICH WAS A MIDDAY RUN OUT OF GILBERT. I REMEMBER ON OUR SECOND TRIP...
Boy! Another heart breaker! My deepest sympathy to the Jenkins family. One of the last times thatI saw Lucille, we were at Lycaste and E. Jefferson (the East...
My heart is indeed sadden by the lost of another co-worker, Lucille Jenkins. I've been at DOT going on twenty-seven years and always enjoyed seeing one of the...
DETROIT TRANSIT FACTOID: THOSE D-DOT AM GENERAL & NEW FLYER COACHES A 1975 DDOT AMGeneral "Metropolitan" Transit Bus (Schramm collection photo) Did You Know???...
THIS WEEK WE'LL LOOK AT THE LIVERNOIS LINE THE LIVERNOIS LINE IS THE ONLY LINE IN THE CITY TO HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH THE LIVERNOIS LINE CARRIED WORKING...
I am truly saddened by the passing of Ms. Lucille Jenkins. "Ms. Lucille",(that's how I greeted her!) always had a smile and a antadote to share with me. One...
Hi Tim Let's see ---two cents which I will snail mail to you, plus a whole lot more which I have to send to your e-mail address because of the SPAM laws. So,...
BLAST FROM THE PAST: GRAND RIVER RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC Being the heart of the automobile industry at one time, it was only natural that a number of transportation...
I thought I'd take a second and do a lil' historical piggy-backing on member D Grooms comments on the Livernois line. Bus service along Livernois originated...
From time to time, we here at "DSR-2-DDOT" like to post little known facts, figures and trivia messages, we call "Factoids," to help inform our membership of...
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Mar 12, 2006 11:47 am
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CITY ORDINANCE FACTOID: DISPLAYING OF COACH DESTINATION Did You Know??? ....That the Municipal Code for the City of Detroit prohibits transit buses (referred...
... Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but on July 1, 2006 a new 1490 regulation goes into effect. It will limit the operators to a max of 60 hours a week of...
THIS WEEK WE'LL LOOK AT THE OLD NORTHLAWN THE NORTHLAWN WAS A SHORT LINE LIKE THE BASSSETT LINE IT WENT FROM INTERVALE AND WYOMING TO CLOVERLAWN AND GRAND...
As much as I am an advocate for driver's rights, at what point do we begin to return to the right of the forty-hour-work-week? Besides the fact that exhaustion...
The Fact is we need a decent weeks pay for a decent weeks work,right now we are so far behind where we should be that it....really don`t matter anymore...cause...
'LOW-FLOOR' RTS COACHES After the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) purchased its last fleet of GMC RTS-II coaches back in 1980, the department...
OK fOLKS! Here are a few interior photos of Millennium Transit's new "low-floor" RTS Extreme coach... "H.B.Craig-II" <hbcraig2@...> wrote: 'LOW-FLOOR'...
NEW FLYER's NEW STYLE TRANSIT COACH Well, one thing is for sure....If the department again goes with NewFlyer Industries for its next fleet of new buses, then...
An important "anniversary" coming up soon in Detroit.....50th anniversary of the DSR's LAST streetcar run in Detroit, on the WOODWARD line in early April....I...
50TH ANNIVERSARY -- END OF DSR STREETCAR EVENTS ATTENTION 'DSR-2-DOT' MEMBERS!! On Sunday, April 8, 1956, @ 5:56AM, the last regularly scheduled streetcar to...