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Old Posted Sep 19, 2019, 3:55 PM
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Most of Detroit's true streetcar suburbs were absorbed into the city of Detroit. Those that weren't are mostly border burbs located along one of the major spoke avenues, such as Grosse Pointe Park:
https://goo.gl/maps/vE36hrwmuDcfXVzV8

Almost all of the other true Detroit streetcar suburbs that were not absorded into Detroit, or surrounded by Detroit (Highland Park and Hamtramck), are in Oakland County, along the Woodward Avenue corridor:

Ferndale - https://goo.gl/maps/3TWLtSWPAvyddzGb8
Pleasant Ridge* - https://goo.gl/maps/yQUoWubRbPEF8ZUf9
Royal Oak** - https://goo.gl/maps/26BWYwh14yNwvV5Z7

*Pleasant Ridge's only commercial corridor is Woodward Avenue, but it is sandwiched between Ferndale and Royal Oak.

Detroit's interurban stations/suburbs were more analogous to the commuter suburbs on the East Coast. Even though many of them no longer have any rail connectivity, it is somewhat obvious which suburbs those are, due to the quaint town-like centers that many of them have retained:

Farmington - https://goo.gl/maps/VmKHjhYBV6jLMWRj6
Northville - https://goo.gl/maps/Su7dFDCceoHgbeJs5
Dearborn** - https://goo.gl/maps/SyeuNz5xvLfm5Hne7
Wyandotte - https://goo.gl/maps/QivLoRdVhuYRHE9P7
Birmingham - https://goo.gl/maps/UqVr47wjoCVR6dLZ8
Rochester - https://goo.gl/maps/rDi2kM9tFfrAyYca7
Another Rochester building that reminds me of the Wauwatosa link - https://goo.gl/maps/bPzBTnApKroMgGre7

**Dearborn and Royal Oak are technically both streetcar and Interurban suburbs, since those cities were connected to Detroit via both modes.

Last edited by iheartthed; Sep 19, 2019 at 4:17 PM.
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