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A report released this week by the group Transportation Riders United notes that Detroit area bus service was lackluster before COVID. But now transit agencies are struggling to bring service up to even pre-pandemic levels, creating genuine hardship for the people who depend on them.

Oakland County communities will no longer be able to opt out of southeast Michigan’s regional bus service, SMART. That’s just one result of a transit millage that county voters passed Tuesday.

The Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted to approve the ballot option. Now residents will vote on the 10-year millage expected to raise over $66 million in its first year.

A razor-thin vote to continue supporting the SMART bus system has survived a recount in Macomb County.Macomb voters approved the millage by just 39 votes…

A Michigan taxpayer group has filed for a recount of a bus tax proposal in Macomb County. This month voters narrowly renewed a millage to help fund the…

A recount looks likely for a bus service millage renewal that just barely passed in Macomb County this week.Voters in Wayne and Oakland counties…

Macomb and Oakland counties’ leaders want the public to support a millage renewal for regional bus service that will be on the ballot this summer.Mark…

Three of Metro Detroit’s main traffic corridors are getting new, faster bus service along some main thoroughfares starting New Year’s Day.The new FAST…

Today, of course, is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday. And if you know your history, you know that the event that brought him to…

With the surprising outcome in the Detroit mayor’s race last week and other news, you may have missed a significant development on the transportation…