A new page was recently added to the "DETROIT TRANSIT HISTORY" web-site, as we continue to take a look back at the PCC streetcar era in Detroit. This will be...
All: As it turned out, I had a trolleybuses.net DSRDOT update page in the works. Of recent interest is a GM Bus ad from 1955 touting the *improvements* ...
Great information Tom, thanks for sharing it, especially those ads. It just goes to show how much of a major player the DSR was back then, for that many...
... site, as we continue to take a look back at the PCC streetcar era in Detroit. This will be the forth in a series of "updated" articles that were originally...
Feel free "MTG" to send along anything you think might be informative or relative to any topics covered on the web-site. Actually, those events centering...
Recently, the "Dave's Electric Railroads" (http://www.davesrailpix.com/index.html) website added 23 pictures (22 in black & white) from the collection of...
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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Aug 12, 2007 6:27 pm
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When AND Why did D-DOT implement the blue uniforms from the fabulous Green/Yellow uniforms? The new uniforms don't even match the DDOT color schemes! ...
(MODERATOR'S NOTATION: The original message sent by member "yahtouchus" was mistakenly deleted before being posted to the group. This copy has been re-posted...
Did you know that when the Ford Freeway was first constructed, there were actually bus stops built along the expressway? You can now read all about these...
The northern Ford Freeway Level Loading Station at Livernois (for the westbound freeway lanes) was removed about 5 to 7 years ago. It is no longer there....
... Thanks "TimTrolleyDavis." I hear ya, and you are basically right. But although the actual turning and boarding lanes used by the express buses are no...
The way the article was written, it seemed to me that if you go to Livernois & the Ford Freeway today, you can still see the west-bound bus lanes as they...
This also explains why Livernois and I-94 has been the relief point used by scheduling for so many years! Great information guys! ... From: TTS Craig...
No harm done "Trolley Davis", no toes were stepped on. Actually, I appreciate any comments and suggestions that can help make the site more accurate and...
Thanks Tom for that correction. Last evening I realized that the year- date I posted in my email for that article was transposed, and should have read "1945,"...
State Fairgrounds Loop -- 1954 A photo of the State Fairgrounds Loop back when streetcars operated on Woodward State Fairgrounds Loop -- 2004 A more recent...
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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Aug 26, 2007 6:45 pm
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The history of the Gratiot-Michigan bus line -- launched by DDOT back during the early 1990's --- has now been added to the "Bus Route History" section of the...
THE FAIRGROUND LOOKS GOOD,ALSO HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW BUS SCHEDULE THAT ARE IN COLOR. IT'S BEEN ALMOST 12 YEARS SINCE WE HAD COLOR BUS SCHEDULE. HAT'S OFF TO...
Yeah, I had heard about the new pocket schedule changes. As a matter of fact, the new "color" pocket schedules were brought to my attention a couple of days...
Here is a peak at the ALL NEW c o l o r DDDOT schedule due to size limits it is being sent as two emails. Intresting item is on the front map they point out...
DETROIT -- Megabus.com, the 17-month-old bus service that offers fares as low as $1 each way between Detroit and Chicago, announced today that it will begin...
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