Detroit Department of Transportation 1001-1148

Detroit Department of Transportation 1001-1148 were General Motors Corporation T6H-5307A buses built in Pontiac, Michigan in 1975.

These were the first buses purchased new by DDOT and the last New Look buses purchased for the city of Detroit. They sported other firsts as well: first DDOT buses in a numbering scheme that would be used until 2010, first to display the current route numbering and naming system used today, first Detroit buses since the 1940's to feature side destination signs, first buses with computerized wheel-lock control braking system to prevent skidding, first buses with foot-operated directional signal switches, first buses with plush cushioned brightly-colored seats and first buses with improved interior lighting (lighting was moved from the center aisle to the advertising panels along the sides).

In June 1974, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority was awarded $9.1 million in federal and state grant money to be used to purchase 148 new buses for the Detroit Street Railway, which at the time was slated to undergo restructuring the following month and renamed the Department of Transportation. In January 1975, SEMTA obtained an additional $12.5 million federal grant for 89 additional buses. Nearly 80% was allocated towards new DDOT buses, the remaining 20% would go towards new buses for SEMTA's suburban operations. The local share money was obtained through a special half-cent state gasoline and weight tax diverted to mass transit.

Two orders which totaled 196 buses were placed with GMC, with 148 slated for DDOT and 48 for SEMTA. An order for 51 additional buses for DDOT was later awarded to AM General.

Delivery began in June 1975. The vehicles, which cost $62,000 each, were purchased by SEMTA with federal and state money, but were leased to DDOT for only $1 per year per bus. They were formally unveiled by Mayor Coleman A. Young on Tuesday, June 10, 1975.

In the mid-1980's, a number of units were rehabbed by Blitz Body Corporation and repainted into the then-current DDOT scheme. The 10 buses that ended up never getting rehabbed were retired by 1990 and by 1996, the last vehicles in this series were retired.

Fleet numbers from this series were later reused for a 2010 order of New Flyer D40LF buses.

Engine	Transmission	Seating	Destination sign
Detroit Diesel 6V71N		48	Rollsign

Details

Fleet number	Date	Paint at retirement	Terminal at retirement	Notes
1001	1975			RETIRED
1002	1975			RETIRED
1003	1975			RETIRED
1004	1975			RETIRED
1005	1975			RETIRED
1006	1975			RETIRED
1007	1975			RETIRED
1008	1975			RETIRED
1009	1975			RETIRED
1010	1975			RETIRED
1011	1975			RETIRED
1012	1975			RETIRED
1013	1975			RETIRED
1014	1975			RETIRED
1015	1975			RETIRED
1016	1975			RETIRED
1017	1975			RETIRED
1018	1975			RETIRED
1019	1975			RETIRED
1020	1975			RETIRED
1021	1975			RETIRED
1022	1975			RETIRED
1023	1975			RETIRED
1024	1975			RETIRED
1025	1975			RETIRED
1026	1975			RETIRED
1027	1975			RETIRED
1028	1975			RETIRED
1029	1975			RETIRED
1030	1975			RETIRED
1031	1975			RETIRED
1032	1975			RETIRED
1033	1975			RETIRED
1034	1975			RETIRED
1035	1975			RETIRED
1036	1975			RETIRED
1037	1975			RETIRED
1038	1975			RETIRED
1039	1975			RETIRED
1040	1975			RETIRED
1041	1975			RETIRED
1042	1975			RETIRED
1043	1975			RETIRED
1044	1975			RETIRED
1045	1975			RETIRED
1046	1975			RETIRED
1047	1975			RETIRED
1048	1975			RETIRED
1049	1975			RETIRED
1050	1975			RETIRED
1051	1975			RETIRED
1052	1975			RETIRED
1053	1975			RETIRED
1054	1975			RETIRED
1055	1975			RETIRED
1056	1975			RETIRED
1057	1975			RETIRED
1058	1975			RETIRED
1059	1975			RETIRED
1060	1975			RETIRED
1061	1975			RETIRED
1062	1975			RETIRED
1063	1975			RETIRED
1064	1975			RETIRED
1065	1975			RETIRED
1066	1975			RETIRED
1067	1975			RETIRED
1068	1975			RETIRED
1069	1975			RETIRED
1070	1975			RETIRED
1071	1975			RETIRED
1072	1975			RETIRED
1073	1975			RETIRED
1074	1975			RETIRED
1075	1975			RETIRED
1076	1975			RETIRED
1077	1975			RETIRED
1078	1975			RETIRED
1079	1975			RETIRED
1080	1975			RETIRED
1081	1975			RETIRED
1082	1975			RETIRED
1083	1975			RETIRED
1084	1975			RETIRED
1085	1975			RETIRED
1086	1975			RETIRED
1087	1975			RETIRED
1088	1975			RETIRED
1089	1975			RETIRED
1090	1975			RETIRED
1091	1975			RETIRED
1092	1975			RETIRED
1093	1975			RETIRED
1094	1975			RETIRED
1095	1975			RETIRED
1096	1975			RETIRED
1097	1975			RETIRED
1098	1975			RETIRED
1099	1975			RETIRED
1100	1975			RETIRED
1101	1975			RETIRED
1102	1975			RETIRED
1103	1975			RETIRED
1104	1975			RETIRED
1105	1975			RETIRED
1106	1975			RETIRED
1107	1975			RETIRED
1108	1975			RETIRED
1109	1975			RETIRED
1110	1975			RETIRED
1111	1975			RETIRED
1112	1975			RETIRED
1113	1975			RETIRED
1114	1975			RETIRED
1115	1975			RETIRED
1116	1975			RETIRED
1117	1975			RETIRED
1118	1975			RETIRED
1119	1975			RETIRED
1120	1975			RETIRED
1121	1975			RETIRED
1122	1975			RETIRED
1123	1975	Green and yellow double-crossover stripe	Coolidge	RETIRED
1124	1975			RETIRED
1125	1975			RETIRED
1126	1975			RETIRED
1127	1975			RETIRED
1128	1975			RETIRED
1129	1975			RETIRED
1130	1975			RETIRED
1131	1975			RETIRED
1132	1975			RETIRED
1133	1975			RETIRED
1134	1975			RETIRED
1135	1975			RETIRED
1136	1975			RETIRED
1137	1975			RETIRED
1138	1975			RETIRED
1139	1975			RETIRED
1140	1975			RETIRED
1141	1975			RETIRED
1142	1975			RETIRED
1143	1975			RETIRED
1144	1975			RETIRED
1145	1975			RETIRED
1146	1975			RETIRED
1147	1975			RETIRED
1148	1975			RETIRED