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1974 In Rail Transport
Events January * January 2 – SEMTA begins subsidizing the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's commuter rail service between Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. * January 19–20 – New Zealand Railways K class (1877) steam locomotive K 88 ''Washington'' is recovered from the Branxholme locomotive dump in the Ōreti River. March * March 6 – Amtrak begins passenger service in the Central Valley of California with the first run of the ''San Joaquins'' between Oakland and Bakersfield. * March 17 – A freight train on Canadian Pacific Railway is derailed when it hits a rock slide near Spences Bridge, British Columbia; the accident leads to the installation of ditch lights on all Canadian diesel locomotives, a practice later copied by American railroads. May * May 6 – Inauguration of full electric service on British Rail West Coast Main Line through to Glasgow. * May 8–27 – Railway strike in India. The strike by 17 million workers of Indian Railways is the largest k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority
The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) is the public transit operator serving the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, United States. It supplements the Detroit Department of Transportation, which operates buses within the city of Detroit. Beginning operations in 1967 as the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA), the agency was reorganized and renamed SMART in 1989. SMART operates 47 Transit bus, bus routes, plus paratransit and microtransit services, covering select communities in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne and Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland counties, plus all of Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County. As of 2008, SMART has the third-highest ridership of Michigan's transit systems, surpassed by Lansing's Capital Area Transportation Authority and the Detroit Department of Transportation. History 1967-1989: SEMTA The Michigan Legislature passed the Metropolitan Transportation Authorities Act of 1967, which included the creation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
