Detroit City Buses worse than gas prices

A ride on the Detroit Dept. of Transportation (DDOT) bus from Six Mile Road to downtown Detroit.

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Comedy

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• gas prices
• Detroit public transportation

[MichiganMessenger]

Hate to break it to you, QD, but the driver was white.

[seoulkidd1]

soon tke ddot and smart systems will merge

[siuwed]

I hear a lot of complaining and talking about "working people". Like the drivers aren't working people?

Why don't YOU drive a bus in Detroit then if you can do better? It's America, you have a choice, you can buy a car or walk. My guess is that people riding the bus, are not really the one's paying the true cost of Mass Transit, since fares don't come near covering the costs. Property taxes do, who pays those in Detroit?

[n2355g]

There is something wrong with this video. Is this a prank? They are on Fenkell and Linwood and then they move over to Fenkell and Princeton to the post office on the north side of the street. They are going west, away from downtown. Then they board a bus, the west bound Fenkell bus. This bus is going away from downtown. Look at the end of the video, they pass F.D. Stella Products on Fenkell just past Livernois, this is west of where they were. This is a prank or some very lost people.

[n2355g]

This comment was below the video. "A ride on the Detroit Dept. of Transportation (DDOT) bus from Six Mile Road to downtown Detroit." They were on the Fenkell bus. Fenkell is sometimes called 5 Mile. BTW they were going away from downtown. The Fenkell bus runs a mile south of the Six Mile line, and will not go to Six Mile as part of its normal operation.

[qwandiddy]

Chicago Transit Authority is fucked up too but Chicago Gas Prices are WAY WORSE than their Public Transportation. Michigan Gas prices ain't shit.

[neicyjordan]

the buses do come about 40 to 50% of the time but they are most likely over crowded and late. I have been on the Grand River bus twice now and the bus has gotten jacked. The reporter said she couldn't do it evryday, think of those who have too. Then with Mayor Bing closing down more bus lines...Bananas! I hate the freaking bus!

[environrien]

I am sorry but a 'reporter' doesn't ask for 'percentages' from a random bus rider and infer them as fact. What is he a busologist? The city population dropped from its peak in 1950 of 1,849,568 to 916,952 in 2007. This is attributable to the construction of an extensive freeway system during the 1950s,making public transport in 2010 unnecessarily widespread; yeah likely unreliable... consider actual demand. Again. come up with real suggestions. This is not reporting. I will stop watching now.

[qwandiddy]

Ohh Get Real!! In Chicago, most people depending on CTA because of Gas Prices which is always twice higher than Detroit. Chicago's Gas Prices has been the Nation's highest for last few years now.