STREETCARS & BUSES.

Public transportation stitched together residential neighborhoods, downtown shopping, employment districts, schools, entertainment, and industrial workplaces. This section examines routes and transfer points as part of Detroit geography rather than treating transit as background scenery.

Streetcar safety demonstration, Detroit, Mich. — REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Streetcar safety demonstration in Detroit, photographed between 1915 and 1930.
Source: Detroit Publishing Co. / source record · No known restrictions on publication

RESEARCH LENS

Reading the transit city

Streetcar corridors and the neighborhoods they served
Bus routes and the transition between transit modes
Factory-shift commuting and worker movement
Downtown transfer points and commercial streets
Period maps, schedules, fares, photographs, and advertisements as primary-source layers

CONNECT THE CITY

Transit stitched the map together.

Routes, schedules, stops, and service changes are used only when period sources identify them.

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