There was talk at one time of making the SMART buses limited stop in both directions once inside the City of Detroit. This would eliminate the rule of boarding only outbound and deboarding only inbound. So theoretically you could ride a SMART bus within the CoD like a DTOGS train only without a ROW or traffic signal priority. In the face of the financial and political challenges of doing anything else at this point, I think this is the best improvement we can hope for.
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