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AATA Route 5
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Route 5, the Packard bus, runs every 15 minutes during the day between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
From Ypsilanti, here's where the bus goes:
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[edit] Major stops
- Ann Arbor Library - Main Branch
- Ann Arbor Main St. Area
- Blake Transit Center
- Catholic Social Services
- Colonial Square Co-op
- Downtown Ypsilanti
- Eastern Michigan University
- Estabrook School
- Evergreen Pointe Apts.
- Forest Hills Co-op
- Georgetown Mall
- Jewish Community Center
- Meijer (Carpenter Rd.)
- McKenny Union
- U of M Institute for Social Research
- U of M West Quad
- University Townhouses Co-op
- Ypsilanti High School
- Ypsilanti Transit Center
[edit] Literary history
Ok, this is a fun thing: the Academy of American Poets recently created a map of 31 treasured literary landmarks in the the United States.
Number 19 on the list, as you can see, is "Robert Hayden's bus route, Ann Arbor, MI." They don't provide more info on the site, but the Ann Arbor News did a piece on August 6:
"With eyesight too poor for driving, Hayden often rode the bus from the corner of State and William Streets to Packard and Gardner Streets, then walked the short distance to his home ... AATA Route 5 played a humble but important supportive role in his later career."
So your bus route has been memorialized ...
Hayden was consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress in his day -- that's the role that's now called U.S. poet laureate. I like his stuff a lot. His best-known piece is here: Those Winter Sundays.
[edit] Route map
The route, starting from the Blake Transit Center:
- William Street heading east
- right on Thompson Street, heading south
- stop at Thompson Street at Madison Street by West Quad
- left on Packard Street, heading southeast
- stop by Jimmy John's. There's wifi at Artisan Bistro, and a $5 lunch at Ali Baba.
- stop by Packard Street at Wells Street. Ambient wifi at Burrito Joint / Mr. Pizza, with its $1 kid size ice cream (free if you're under 10). Or get your knife sharpened at Arbor Vacuum or your bike fixed up at Ann Arbor Cyclery.
- stop by Packard Street at Granger Avenue
- stop in front of Chia Shiang. No dogs on the bus, so you can't take Fido to the Dog-o-Mat.
- stop near the slowly dying Georgetown Mall, with a Kroger's hanging on
- south on Stone School Road
- east on Ellsworth Road; there's a shopping plaza with Chicken House, an Ahmo's, and a vietnamese restaurant at the corner
- north on Platt Road
- east on Packard Road
- stop at Packard Road at Carpenter Road for a White Castle slider or nearby for wifi at Espresso Royale Caffe
[edit] Route maps
- Route 5 page at the AATA
- Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor map (pdf)
- Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti (pdf)
