Morehead City, North Carolina: Whipping up trouble before ever reaching land, Hurricane Irene zeroed in on Friday for a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered the nation's biggest subway system shut down for the first time because of a natural disaster. The hurricane lost some strength but still packed 100 mph winds, and officials in the Northeast, not used to tropical weather, feared it could wreak devastation..Until now, federal dollars for bus maintenance were allotted to Detroit's bus system, DDOT, and the regional bus system, SMART, on an equation that factored in bus ridership. DDOT, with just under 115,000 daily riders as of 2011 according to the American Public Transit Association, received 65 percent of that money. SMART's average weekday ridership throughout Southeast Michigan numbers about 36,000 they received 35 percent of the funds..

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