page_title: Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway
section_title: Shutdown
hierarchical_section_title: Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway / History / Shutdown
caption_attribution_description: The Greyhound Bus Station was built on this site in 1940, but that building -- except for the facade -- was demolished in July, 2014, to prepare the site for construction of a new hotel.
context_page_description: The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, known informally as the Ypsi-Ann, was an interurban railroad operating in southeastern Michigan; it was the first such operation in the state.
context_section_description: Under a variety of names, interurbans continued to operate on the Ypsi-Ann's tracks, eventually coming under control of the Detroit, Jackson and Chicago Railway. The system finally shut down in 1929, in the face of steep competition from buses and automobiles. (Ann Arbor's local trolley line had switched from street cars to buses in January, 1925). For years after the 1942 wartime scrap drives, it was believed that all of Ypsi's tracks had been removed, but in 2004 crews rebuilding a section of Washington Street found a stretch of rails buried under the pavement.
caption: The former Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway station at West Huron Street in Ann Arbor serving as the Greyhound bus depot, ca. 1939
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