Yesterday, Governor Whitmer presented her executive budget to legislators and the public. While there’s a lot in there, we’re focused on what the Governor had to say on transit – and overall, while this budget is a good step forward, it is not enough to deliver great transit for Michigan. As a reminder, this is […]
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Ahead of this year’s State of Transit event, we met with riders to hear their perspective on the current State of Transit. Hear more about their stories below! Mary Jo: The current state of transit is “better than it probably used to be, but not as good as it was a long time ago,” Mary
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Last week TRU hosted the biggest night in transit, our annual State of Transit event at Marygrove Conservatory. TRU was joined by transit providers, elected officials, transit advocates, riders and sponsors for a night of conversation and reflection on the current state of transit in southeast Michigan and beyond and where we can go from
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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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