Service Alerts

Route 103 and 109 Detour Under Mesaba Beginning Monday, August 24th

Beginning Monday, August 24, West Superior Street beneath Mesaba Avenue will be closed to traffic in both directions. As a result, Route 109 will operate on the detour outlined below.

Route 103 will follow the same detour as Route 109 through August 29. Beginning August 30, Route 103 will transition to a different detour and will no longer use the Route 109 detour routing.

This closure is expected to remain in effect through the end of October. Additional routes currently operating on separate detours may eventually return to their regular routes, which would be affected by this closure. Detour information will be updated as those routing changes are implemented.

Route 109 and 103 (until Aug 29^th) To Downtown: Regular route into downtown from I-35 NB

Route 103 To Downtown starting Aug 30th: the detour on W 1^st St will take 103 around this closure.

Route 109 From Downtown and Westbound 103 (until Aug 29^th): From W Superior St and 5^th Ave W detour by turning left onto 5^th Ave W, follow 5^th Ave W to I-35 SB ramp and take that ramp to resume regular route on I-35 SB.

Route 103 Westbound starting Aug 30^th: the detour on W 1^st St will take 103 around this closure.

Route 109 and Route 103 (through Aug 29^th) map:

Route 112 Detour Begins Wednesday August 19th Pecan/Upham/Baylis area

On Sunday August 30th, there will be changes to Routes 103 and Blue line.  These routes will revert to the schedules and service corridors used before the summer detour schedules launched in June.  This change will have route 103 staying on Grand avenue through Spirit Valley/Lincoln Park, and see the return of the Blue Line serving UMD (aside from active detours that will affect these routes into fall).

Additionally, Superior will see the addition of a new local route, Route 210, returning service to portions of South Superior, connecting that neighborhood with all other Superior routing.  This routing addition is a first phase of the plan to provide more service to Superior, pending the addition of more drivers.   The 210 will operate seven days per week except on holidays. Service will run approximately 6:00 am to 10:00 am, and 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, much in the way recently added Route 111 operates.

Here are previews of the schedules for the three routes mentioned above:

Blue Line Schedule  effective Sunday, August 30th

Route 103 Schedule  effective Sunday, August 30th

Route_210 Schedule  effective Sunday, August 30th

On Sunday, September 6th from 10:30am until 1:30pm, the Duluth Superior Pride Parade will be held along Tower Avenue from Belknap Street to Broadway Street in Superior Wi. During this time Route 111 buses will need to detour as follows:

Route 111 From Downtown Superior:

Layover on Banks Avenue facing south (facing Belknap Street) between Broadway and Winters Streets, then run Banks Avenue to Belknap Street, turn left and continue along Belknap Street on regular route.

Route 111 To Downtown Superior:

Run regular route to Belknap Street and Tower Avenue, then detour by continuing along Belknap Street to Banks Avenue, turn right and run to Broadway Street (NOTE: If traffic doesn’t allow for a safe right turn onto Banks buses may alternatively go straight through the stop lights and take the curved exit immediately passed the stop lights to the right onto Oakes Ave behind Kwik Trip, if they do this they will then turn right onto 14^th St, followed by a left onto Banks Ave), turn left onto Broadway St and run to Oakes Avenue, turn right and run to Winter Street, turn right and run to Banks Avenue, turn right and layover along Banks.

We will treat any nearside corner on Banks Ave between 14th St and Broadway St as a temporary stop during the parade

We will stay on Tower Ave until the closures for the parade, and we will resume service on Tower once the parade closure has concluded.