Street Cars in Detroit.

[Mikeg]

All based on a tranportation study the city in its stupidity gave to GM to conduct!

It was City of Detroit traffic engineers that conducted that study - not GM [source]. In the immediate post-war period, commuters and shoppers continued to "vote with their car keys". Rush hour traffic on the radial arterials was horrendous. City traffic engineers experimented with ways to increase peak traffic flow along Grand River between W. Grand Boulevard and Livernois. They found that by replacing the streetcars with curbside bus service and using reversable traffic lanes in the center of the roadway where the streetcars had been, they could increase rush hour traffic flow by 40% and break the gridlock. This was the beginning of the end of streetcars in Detroit, and it was hastened by the mismanagement of the DSR and their inability to control their labor costs.

Here is a 1929 photo of relatives who worked at the DSR Baker Carhouse [[W. Vernonr at Livernois).