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Please join us in congratulating the 2017 Regional Transit Awardees:

– Forward Motion Award for Most Effective Public Servant: Warren Evans, Wayne County Executive
– Exemplary Innovation Award: RefleX, the joint service of DDOT, SMART and RTA
– Unsung Hero Award: Alexis Blizman
– Transit Employee of the Year: Ben Stupka, RTA Manager of Planning
– Transit Activist of the Year: Daniel Duane Spyker

Please join us as these awards are presented at TRU’s sixth annual Regional Transit Awards dinner on Thursday evening, May 11.

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Feb 1 2017

TRU Annual Meeting highlighted progress, challenges

24-hour service, Dan Dirks, DDOT, Michael Ford, QLINE, Reflex, Regional Transit Authority, SMART, TRU Annual Meeting, TRU Board of Directors, Vote Yes for Regional Transit

TRU’s Annual Meeting, held Monday January 2017 at the MSU Detroit Center, was packed with over 150 people including transit agency leaders and employees, bus riders, civic leaders, public officials, community activists, and transit supporters.

The event included
1) a TRU presentation on The 2016 Year In Review
2) A State of Metro Detroit Transit Panel Discussion, featuring RTA’s Michael Ford, SMART’s John Hertel, DDOT’s Dan Dirks, and M-1 Rail’s Sommer Woods
3) The TRU Board Election

Highlights of the presentations are summarized with photos and links to videos and downloadable documents.

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Sep 1 2016

Exciting Regional Express Bus Service and DDOT Service Expansions!

24-hour service, Dan Dirks, DDOT, Eastern Market, Mayor Duggan, Reflex, Regional Transit Authority, SMART

While most of the major transit service improvements are dependent on passing the Regional Transit ballot measure this November, there are some important improvements starting now! New regional transit service launching – Reflex! RTA, DDOT, and SMART have partnered up to launch a pilot project called Reflex. Starting Sept 3-5, you can travel quickly and

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Aug 4 2016

On November 8, the People Will Decide!

Ann Arbor, Macomb County, November 8, Oakland, Regional Transit Authority, Regional Transit Master Plan, RTA Board of Directors, SMART, Vote Yes

The Regional Transit Authority has officially voted to place the regional transit funding measure on the Nov 8 ballot! This is a truly momentous occasion: For the very first time, people throughout all 4 counties of southeast Michigan will have a chance to vote on investing in improved regional transit.

It looked for a while that this day would not come. When the Oakland and Macomb board members refused to support placing it on the ballot on July 21 and again on July 28, we feared regional transit efforts would be delayed for years!

Getting this on the ballot did come at a price – each County and the City of Detroit will all have to affirmatively approve all future changes in the transit plan and allocations of state and federal funding coming to southeast Michigan. While the sausage-making isn’t always pretty, we got the outcome we needed.

Time to get down to work persuading people throughout southeast Michigan to VOTE YES for RTA on November 8!

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Jun 14 2016

Connecting People to Jobs: Comparing Current and Potential Future Transit

ACT, BRT, James Robertson, Regional Transit Authority, Regional Transit Plan, SMART, Woodward

One of the core purposes of transit is to connect people to jobs. Nationally, half of all transit trips are to get to work. So the first in a series evaluating our region’s current and potential future regional transit will focus on connecting people to jobs. How does our region’s transit do at getting people

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