Bingo. It blows my mind that people think the two are comparable systems in what they do. Even apart from the difficulty of merging the two fiscally, service-wise, this is apples to oranges. Again, SMART doesn't have the ability to assume the type of service that DDOT provides, which operates a far greater diversity of routes that SMART, which runs really only one time type of service [[low-frequency long hauls). Of course, since Detroit does all kind of hauls and SMART does a particular kind you'll have some overlap, but it's nowhere as much overlap as people think.
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