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AATA Route 2

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Route 2, Plymouth, starts on Fourth Avenue, outside the Blake Transit Center mall. It goes north on Fourth Avenue for two blocks, east on Washington Street four blocks, and then runs through Central Campus and the Medical Campus on Thayer Street, North University Avenue, Geddes Avenue, Observatory Street, and East Medical Center Drive. Exiting the Medical Center to the north, the route follows Maiden Lane to Plymouth Road, then Plymouth 2 miles (3.2 km) east to Nixon Road, stopping at the Plymouth Road Mall and Traver Village Shopping Center.

After the Plymouth/Nixon malls stop, the route is split: alternating runs are designated North Neighborhood or South Neighborhood.

North Neighborhood: Nixon Road north 1 mile (1.6 km) to Green Road, Green east and south 1.75 miles (2.8 km) to the University's Green Road Park and Ride lot.
South Neighborhood: Returns to Plymouth Road via Nixon and Huron Parkway; east on Plymouth Road to Green Road, then south on Green to Glazier Way, east on Glazier to Earhart Road, and north a short distance to the Glacier Hills Retirement Community. (Some runs turn south at Earhart and run to Greenhills School instead of Glacier Hills.)

Evening runs serve both the North and South neighborhoods, running from Plymouth Mall on Nixon to Green, then following Green all the way to Glazier and serving Glacier Hills.

Both neighborhood routings return to downtown along the same route, except downtown where they use Fifth Avenue to reach Blake rather than Fourth.

Weekdays the route runs four times every hour, leaving Blake 3 minutes past every quarter hour from 6:48am to 6:18pm. Runs leaving at :18 and :48 serve the South Neighborhood; runs leaving downtown at :03 and :33 serve the North Neighborhood; in both cases it takes 34 minutes to get from downtown to the far end, and 38 to return. From 6:18 to 10:18 pm, the route runs twice every hour, serving both neighborhoods (during the summer and University of Michigan breaks, only hourly service is provided). Saturdays the route runs hourly in the morning, leaving Blake 48 minutes past every hour, from 8:48am to 12:48pm, and serving only the South neighborhood; and twice hourly in the afternoon, leaving Blake 18 and 48 minutes past every hour from 1:18pm to 5:18pm, alternating the neighborhood served. Sundays the route runs hourly, leaving Blake 48 minutes past every hour from 8:48am to 5:48pm and serving only the South neighborhood.