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Detroit took control of the Detroit Unified Railway on May 15, 1922; afterwards, the streetcar system became the city's [[Detroit Department of Transportation|Department of Street Railways]].<ref name=schramm8/>{{#tag:ref|Since July 1, 1974, the Department of Street Railways has been renamed the [[Detroit Department of Transportation]], the agency responsible for the city's bus system. That bus system was started in 1925 as a feeder network to serve the streetcar lines.<ref name=schramm8/>|group=lower-alpha}} Following the change in control, the city also formed the Detroit Rapid Transit Commission to build a [[subway (rail)|subway]] system.<ref name=fogelson>{{cite book |last = Fogelson |first = Robert M. |year = 2001 |title = Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6X-WCewsP-AC |location = New Haven, Connecticut |publisher = [[Yale University Press]] |pages = 85–88 |isbn = 978-0-300-09062-8 |oclc = 182530522 |access-date = October 22, 2012 |via = Google Books }}</ref> Early proposals included a [[:File:Woodward Avenue subway station.jpg|station under Woodward Avenue]] next to [[Detroit City Hall]].<ref name=PBQD>{{cite book |type = Report |author = ((Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas)) |author-link = Parsons Brinckerhoff |year = 1915 |title = Report on Detroit Street Railway Traffic and Proposed Subway, Made to Board of Street Railway Commissioners, City of Detroit |url = https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Yj4pAAAAYAAJ |location = New York |publisher = Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas |page = 115 |oclc = 5463777 |access-date = October 8, 2012 |via = [[Google Play Books]] |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131227071000/https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Yj4pAAAAYAAJ |archive-date = December 27, 2013 }}</ref> In 1926, a four-line system encompassing {{convert|47|mi|km}} of lines was proposed at a cost of $280 million (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{Inflation|US-GDP|280000000|1926}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP|name-list-style=amp}}). By 1929, plans were scaled back further in the face of tough local economic conditions; the plan submitted to voters included one line of {{convert|13.3|mi|km}} that interconnected with the city's streetcar system by way of two {{convert|2.5|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} streetcar tunnels. The bond proposal failed by a 2.5:1 margin that year, killing any proposal for a city subway system in Detroit.<ref name=fogelson/>
The streetcar system, like those in other cities across the US, fell into decline after [[World War II]]. Unlike the [[Great American streetcar conspiracy|streetcar conspiracy]] alleged in other cities, the decline of Detroit's publicly owned system was related to a multitude of different factors. Increased spending on roads benefitted competing bus lines, and zoning changes coupled with freeway construction shifted the city's population to areas away from the older streetcar lines. During the early 1950s, several lines were converted to buses after labor strikes, and other lines were eliminated
[[File:Test train at Campus Martius station, May 2017.jpg|thumb|right|[[QLine]] streetcar at [[Campus Martius station]]|alt=See caption]]
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