"Pardon me, boy, is that the Ann Arbor Choo-choo?"
On Saturday, commuters will get a chance to experience the future of Metro Detroit mass transit during a preview ride along the proposed Detroit to Ann Arbor route.
Transportation Riders United, Detroit Synergy Group and the Sierra Club will host a dinner train along the proposed commuter rail route between Detroit and Ann Arbor. The route, which is expected to be up and running later this year, will use Amtrak stations, mimicking commuter rail lines that once crisscrossed Metro Detroit.
The dinner train will start in Royal Oak at 5 p.m. and stop in Detroit before heading to Ann Arbor for dinner and bar hopping in the city's downtown for the night before returning to Detroit and Royal Oak. There will be a presentation about what is in the works in regards to transit options in Metro Detroit.
Tickets for the ride are $18 round trip from Royal Oak and $14.40 from Detroit. For information, visit detroittransit.org, send an e-mail to trumember@detroittransit.org or call (313) 963-8872.
Source: Megan Owens, executive director of Transportation Riders United
Writer: Jon Zemke
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