Many of us can and must stay and home and shelter-in-place. That’s what TRU staff are doing. Yet we know many people must continue to go places on the bus: Nurses and janitors need to reach hospitals, grocery clerks and pharmacy techs need to get to stores, and anyone without a car still needs food …
Ask anyone close to TRU, and they likely know Patty Fedewa. Patty has been a staunch transit advocate for over 20 years, and a TRU affiliate since 2001. Patty carries a powerful voice in the Detroit transit community, speaking out against fare increases and service disruptions. She was even President of TRU in 2007. As …
While most people aren’t riding the bus, some people still need to, like medical worker Oneita. She’s “freaking out” that there are too many people riding and not enough social distancing.” Despite that, she believes life without the bus would be “unfathomable.”
Chakusola Guinn is an Oakland County resident with something to say. Chakusola has been riding DDOT & SMART buses since 2004, and unfortunately has not always had the smoothest experiences. Chakusola lives in Royal Oak, finding SMART routes and the DDOT Woodward bus constraining. She is fed up with the gaps in Oakland service, and …
LaShondra White makes people beautiful for a living, and she’d love to tell you about it. She owns and operates a beautician business, works as a cosmetics consultant at Kohl’s, and even recently launched her own line of lip gloss! Needless to say, LaShondra is always on the move, and surprisingly enough, she commutes exclusively by …
