Oakland County Approves Universal SMART Millage For Fall Ballot
It’s official: Oakland County will have an opportunity to vote on transit investment in the fall! Such was the determination
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Into Exurban Oblivion: Auburn Hills Mulls Ditching Transit Service
In one of the farthest-north suburbs of Detroit, a municipality’s elected representatives are discussing the possibility of eliminating fixed-route transit, which has the support of an overwhelming percentage of the electorate, to save around $800,000 per year. In this guest co-editorial, Calley Wang and Nat Zorach argue that this is a really, really terrible idea.
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Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert
Martha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.
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Black Ocean Strategy? Private Firms Are Looking To Cut Themselves A Slice Of The Infrastructure Pie.
Wall Street and Silicon Valley are looking for access to infrastructure as they seek out new markets and sources of reliable revenue streams and growth potential. It’s good work … if you can get it.
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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions
The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.
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State of Transit 2020: A Brooksless Mobility Future Rolls Forward
TRU hosted its annual State of Transit event last night at TechTown. A sumptuous feast was catered. County Executives Warren
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Detroit Park City No. 6 – Eastern Parket District
Eastern Market is home to about 1400 city-owned off-street parking spaces, representing a massive public subsidy for the motorcar.
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RTA: Intercity Bus Service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Coming To A Southeast Michigan Near You
Often discussed in conversations about regional transit expansion in Southeast Michigan is the idea of a high-speed rail connection between
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Challenging The Automotive Paradigm in Reagan Democrat Country
I found out the other night that there are people in Macomb County who actually refer to the Gratiot FAST
Read MoreThe Somewhat Unsurprising Struggle of Detroit’s Streetcar
Figures out this week show that Detroit’s QLINE streetcar, once heralded as a bringer of progress to our struggling city,
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