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===Streetcars and other public transportation===

{{see also|Transportation in metropolitan Detroit|QLine}}

On August 27, 1863, the [[Detroit City Railway Company]] (DCRC) established streetcar service along Woodward from Jefferson to Adams avenues.<ref name=schramm9>{{cite book |first = Kenneth |last = Schramm |year = 2006 |title = Detroit's Street Railways |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=R26MH_YEaJQC |series = Images of Rail |location = Charleston, South Carolina |publisher = Arcadia Publishing |isbn = 0-7385-4027-7 |oclc = 67975025 |page = 9 |access-date = April 24, 2017 |via = Google Books }}</ref> The company was formed by investors from [[Syracuse, New York]], earlier that year. Later, on September 18, 1886, a separate electrified line, the Highland Park Railway, was added that ran along Woodward Avenue through Highland Park.<ref name=schramm7>{{harvp|Schramm|2006|p = 7|ps=. }}</ref> In mid-December 1893, the main streetcar line was electrified by the DCRC.<ref name=nrhp-submission>{{cite web|author=Zachary and Associates |date=July 30, 1997 |title=Historic and Architectural Resources of the Cass Farm Survey Area, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan |url={{NRHP url|id=64500270}} |format=PDF |work=[[National Register of Historic Places]] |publisher=National Park Service |page=5 |access-date=August 20, 2012 |df=mdy-all |url-status = live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117233750/http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500270.pdf |archive-date=November 17, 2015 }}</ref> In 1901, the various lines throughout the city were consolidated as the [[Detroit United Railway]].<ref name=schramm8>{{harvp|Schramm|2006|p=8|ps=.}}</ref>