Off the top of my head,
810 and 820 were two similar park and ride routes that served Livonia and Farmington via I-96. When Livonia opted out, the merged them into a new 805 park and ride that runs on I-96 and then turns up Beech Daly in Redford and then goes up Grand River to Halstead.
Bloomfield Hills is opt-out and specifically prohibits SMART buses from stopping along Woodward. They also have voted down spending money to install sidewalks along Woodward several times, which limits the ability to run bus service anyway. People who work along Woodward in BH who use SMART get on/off just outside the city limits to the north or south and then have to walk along the grass/curb to get to thier job.
Most of the SMART 'stop serving' questions are simply that they stopped as soon as they started using a milage to fund the system. The milage allowed them to purchase the buses with thier own money, as they weren't having any luck finding Federal or State funds to purchase them in the early 2000's. Once they had a milage, they stopped serving the newly-minted opt-out communities. Livonia opted out later, which was the time they stopped serving Livonia. Farmington Hills almost opted out last year, but changed thier minds at the last minute at one of the few meetings I have ever heard of where so many people who support something [[keeping SMART) turned out to make sure they were heard.
SMART became all-Gillig low-floor as of 2003. They purchased all 280 of their buses at once, taking delivery in 2001, 2002, 2003. They had some low-floor before that but as of 2003 the whole fleet was those Gillig low-floor 30-40'.
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