DOWNTOWN
LUNCH
TIME
EXPRESS
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© 2007  (PAGE LAST MODIFIED ON 10-07-07)
Information for the above article was compiled from various Detroit area newspapers articles courtesy of the Stan Sycko newspaper
collection, and from the DDOT Route Update notices and bulletins archived in the author's collection.
The former  littleknown  DDOT route
#66 Downtown  Lunch  Time
Express
(a.k.a. the  Eastern  Market
Lunch Time Shuttle) was a short
lived
shuttle
  service   launched   back   on
Monday,
 June  27,  1994.   The  new
service
 lasted  slightly  longer  than  a
coordinated "route-swapping" service
agreement
 between  DDOT  and  the
suburban
    bus     system     SMART
(Suburban
 Mobility  Authority for
Regional
  Transportation),   which
was launched just two days prior.
(see DDOT Suburban Bus Routes - 1994)

This  new  lunch  time  shuttle  service
linked
 Eastern Market  with portions
of the
Medical Center, Greek Town,
Thirty
Sixth   District   Court   and
(Stroh's)
Brewery  Park.  The shuttle
was assigned out of the
DDOT Gilbert
Terminal
 and  operated   from  10:00
a.m. until 2:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, with twelve minute headways.
However, after only a little over one year of operation, the #66 Downtown Lunch Time Express was discontinued,
effective with the operator's pick that went into effect on Saturday, September 2, 1995.
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D-DOT Route #66 (Eastern Market Shuttle)
The route-map for the "short-lived" DDOT Route #66 Downtown Lunch Time Express
Route operated under D-DOT