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Some time after the City cut overtime pay, bus mechanics began maintenance slowdowns. Managers started taking disciplinary action. Around September 10, Bing 's office said that mechanics have slowed service work and recalled busses that didn't need work. Riders had been complaining about especially long delays for weeks.

The City said that nearly half of DDOT's fleet of busses had been out of service for several weeks. The City may have attempted to fire underperforming mechanics. Bing didn't request additional money to manage the situation.

Instead, he decided to deal with the problem through management. They also interviewed transportation group executive Terrence King for an hour on October On October 19, Bing met with union leaders and told them they had a month to fix the busses or other solutions would be found. Bus drivers continued to be paid to wait for available busses per their contract, even though few were available. A study run by Transportation Riders United around this time monitored 4, bus runs.

Early in the morning on December 7, , a fire broke out at the maintenance and dispatch yard on Schaefer Highway near Schoolcraft. The Fire Department said that sprinklers at the site did not activate, and a lack of hydrants made access to water difficult. At least six mostly newer buses were destroyed. On November 3, , a veteran bus driver was beaten by a group of youths at the Rosa Parks Transit Center. Police arrived 30 minutes after the incident.

On November 4, about DDOT drivers refused to drive routes, protesting for security on coaches and improved working conditions. Mayor Dave Bing held emergency meetings with both the Detroit Police and the drivers' unions. The result was an agreement to add patrols to the Rosa Parks Transit Center and for higher police presence in other specified areas. The layoffs of 74 drivers are postponed to give the new administration time to plan for a smaller workforce. He investigated further and found that by 8am, DDOT was already two hours behind schedule.

Toliver and MV Transportation will report to Dirks. Among an order of 80 new buses delivered this year are the first articulated vehicles at DDOT since the last ones were retired in By the mid-to-late sixties, major cuts in bus service were being proposed.

By the arrival of the early seventies, the city's transit system was on the verge of facing possible bankruptcy. As these factors continued to make an impact, it was becoming evident by the sixties that the former transit system needed to be restructured, or the City of Detroit faced the possibility of not having a public transportation system to serve its populace. Obviously, the fare-box revenues alone could no longer provide the needed money for the DSR to operate.

The amendment now permitted the Council to use general city tax funds to provide any needed assistance to the DSR. It also removed the restrictions that all DSR operating expenses must be paid from fare-box revenues alone. If approved, a charter revision restructuring of the DSR could take effect as soon as July, Under the Detroit City Code: Article 7, Chapter 14, Section ; the transportation department shall: Own, maintain, and operate a public transportation system above, on, or below the surface of the ground, or in any combination thereof, utilizing technology known or to be developed.

Operate the system within the city and to a distance outside the city as permitted by law. The establishing of this new "Transportation Department" consequently resulted in a name change for the city-owned transit system from the Department of Street Railways to a newly formed Department of Transportation. The charter, under Article 7, Chapter 14, Section , also abolished the three-membered Board of Street Railway Commission , which had been the policy-making governing authority of the former DSR , while Article 5, Section granted the sole authority to supervise, manage and control the department to an administrative head, or a "Director" of Transportation , appointed by the mayor.

The three Street Railway Commissioners were replaced by a new Advisory Commission for Transportation , composed of at least five members, also appointed by the mayor, but who were limited to only making recommendations under the guidelines of Article 7, Chapter 1, Section It is a fully automated light rail system that operates clockwise on an elevated single track 2. Round trip on the system is approximately 15 minutes, and trains arrive approximately every 3 to 4 minutes.

The DPM system provides connections between the municipal complexes, courts, and administrative offices of several levels of government, Joe Louis Arena, Ford Field, Comerica Park, Greektown, Cobo Convention and Exhibition Center, major hotels, and commercial, banking and retail districts. Close proximity of the Detroit People Mover to the stadia, theatre district, the Detroit Riverwalk and the Rosa Parks Transit Center make reaching your destination downtown easily accessible to other Downtown destinations.