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Council trims $16M DDOT request to $2M for bus shelters and asks for a deployment plan
Summary
Councilors reduced a proposed $16 million supplemental for DDOT to $2 million for citywide shelter/amenity priorities, approved adding the $2 million to the closing resolution and asked DDOT for an inventory, timeline and equity analysis before further spending.
Detroit City Councilors moved on a reduced request for Detroit Department of Transportation funding after hearing administration and DDOT officials describe implementation constraints.
Council members had discussed an additional $16 million for DDOT to accelerate service improvements and shelters. DDOT Director Scott Kramer told the council that the department's proposed budget already included a large supplemental and that an extra $16 million could not be deployed immediately because buses take years to procure and the agency has a staged service plan. "Buses take about 2 years to be…
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