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Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation

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Slogan Ride SMART
Founded 1967
Headquarters Buhl Building
Downtown Detroit, Michigan
Service area Metro Detroit counties of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb
Service type bus service, paratransit
Alliance D-DOT
Routes 48
Fleet
Daily ridership 44,000
Fuel type biodiesel
General Manager John C. Hertel
Website SMART
Former SEMTA/GTW Detroit Commuter Train
Pontiac SEMTA station
Bloomfield Township (Long Lake Road)
Bloomfield Hills (Charing Cross Road)
Birmingham GTW station
Royal Oak / Oakwood Blvd. (12 Mile Road)
Royal Oak / Downtown SEMTA station
Pleasant Ridge (10 Mile Road)
Ferndale (9 Mile Road)
M-102 (8 Mile Road)
Highland Park (formerly Chrysler)
M-8 (Davison Freeway)
I-75 (Chrysler Freeway)
Detroit /Milwaukee Junction
Milwaukee Junction (Left arrow current Amtrak station)
I-94 (Edsel Ford Freeway)
M-3 (Gratiot Avenue)
Dequindre Cut
Downtown Detroit -Renaissance Center

The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) is the public transit operator serving suburban Metro Detroit. It partners with the Detroit Department of Transportation. Beginning operations in 1967 as the "Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority" or "SEMTA", it operates 44 linehaul and three park-and-ride bus routes in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. Its name was changed to SMART in 1989. As of 2008, SMART has the third highest ridership of Michigan's transit systems, surpassed by Capital Area Transportation Authority and Detroit Department of Transportation. SMART has its headquarters in the Buhl Building in Downtown Detroit.

Some of SMART's routes enter the City of Detroit and serve the Downtown and Midtown cores during "peak hours" (Weekdays, 6-9A.M. and 3-6P.M.). Elsewhere in Detroit city limits, a local ordinance bars passengers from being dropped off on outbound routes, or boarding on inbound routes. This is intended to avoid service duplication with Detroit Department of Transportation, which supplements the city of Detroit with its own bus service.

The Michigan Legislature passed the Metropolitan Transportation Authorities Act of 1967, which included the creation of Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA). SEMTA was charged to take over the ownership and operations of the fractured regional transit systems in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties, including the city of Detroit.


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