Help us spread the word about Wayne Countywide Transit! Join Transportation Riders United to talk to festivalgoers about countywide transit at the Plymouth Ice Festival this Saturday! RSVP here. We’ll have clipboards and fliers and will train you up on how to engage with people This August, Wayne County residents will be voting on whether […]
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TRANSIT VOICES: Hear from TRU member and transit advocate Robert Pawlowski about their experience riding transit from a young age and the challenges Downriver residents face accessing transit.
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TRU’s 25th year was an eventful one! We saw major progress in the quest to Double DDOT, gaining a historic increase of funding for the department, and achieving new contracts for bus drivers and mechanics. Transit was elevated as a major issue in the Detroit mayoral election, as we conducted ride-alongs with every mayoral candidate
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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
TRU joins Mayor-elect Sheffield’s transition team! Read More »
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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