Eastern Market After Dark, A Perennial Favorite
It’s always nice to remember that our city has vibrant spaces of retail, cultural production, and social exchange, that aren’t just parking lots.
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MDOT: “An I-375 With Fewer Than Ten Lanes Would Take Away People’s Right To Get Around”
Our favorite road engineering agency is finally again talking about replacing the useless stretch of interstate that is I-375. Unfortunately, the plans just keep getting worse and worse.
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MDOT’s Michigan Avenue Plan Is A Game-Changer. Will It Happen?
For one of the first times ever, the state’s road agency is proposing narrowing a major arterial street and producing a dedicated bus lane. Sort of.
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Sidebar: Can A Wireless Charging Roadway Work?
This piece looks at the question of whether an EV-charging roadway could actually work.
Read MoreIs It Scabbing To Attend The Auto Show?
An informal Twitter poll couldn’t determine.
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“Yeah, No.” – The United Auto Workers.
Members of the United Auto Workers are pushing back on contract offers from the Big Three and are going on strike at a rotating list of plants.
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Southeast Michigan Dreams of Public Power
Municipalization of public utilities, transportation systems, and distribution systems for gas and electricity was all the rage about a century ago. Is it time to bring it back into vogue? A symposium looked at this question.
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UAW: What We Stand To Gain, Vs. Lose, From The Threat Of A Strike.
Why do we always talk about strikes in terms of the bad it would do to the economy? What if instead we talked about the benefits and economic growth that would result from companies meeting labor demands?
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Drivers: Please Don’t Honk At Cyclists. Ever.
Car horns are dangerously loud, and dangerously loud sounds are not only deleterious to health, they’re also scary for cyclists– who are already occupying a precarious position on the streets of American cities.
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City of Detroit: Just Kidding, We Do Have A Secret MOU With The Ilitches and Morouns.
The City of Detroit responded to a long-outstanding FOIA request and conceded that, yes, they do have a secret memorandum of understanding with a couple of the city’s most delinquent landowners. It’s not surprising. It’s just obnoxious that they told me the exact opposite before.
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