TRU is proud to announce that our executive director, Megan Owens, has been named a co-chair of Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield’s Transit Improvement & Mobility Innovation committee on her Rise Higher Detroit Transition Team. Megan is joined by co-chairs Tiffany Gunter (General Manager & CEO of SMART) and Dessa Cosma (Founder and Executive Director of Detroit […]
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At a series of public hearings this week, SMART is proposing some significant service changes for next year, including the first frequency improvements since the agency’s pandemic-era cuts. Among other changes, SMART proposes to increase frequencies on all three of its FAST express routes to every 20 minutes; to extend the Van Dyke and Fort
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A years-long fight ended in victory last Friday as DDOT bus drivers ratified a new contract that gives them a $6-per-hour wage boost. “[Union] members are ecstatic,” drivers’ union president Schetrone Collier said Thursday at a press conference that featured Mayor Duggan and Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield. The contract is great news for both bus drivers
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Applications due November 17th! TRU is hiring through the Michigan Healthy Climate (MHC) Fellows program! We have one position open who will help us conduct outreach throughout the state on clean mobility and transit. Help educate on how transit impacts local communities, meet with groups throughout the state, and help plan a Round-the-Mitten Transit Tour.
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Despite being several days late, the Michigan Legislature finally passed a budget for Fiscal Year 2026, which started Oct 1 of 2025. Our 9 months of advocacy and activism paid off!! The new MI budget includes nearly $160 million more for public transit – including both bus operating and transformational projects! As we had long
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